THE MEDALLION OF THE ACADEMY, 1870-1920 
E. A. Birge. 
The Wisconsin Academy has commemorated its Semi-centen¬ 
nial by a medallion bearing the portraits of six representatives of 
its distinguished members. The medallion was made possible by 
friends who provided the funds necessary for designing it and 
sinking the dies. 
The artist is Leonard Crunelle, the sculptor, of Chicago. He 
has succeeded in the difficult task of furnishing a permanent 
memorial of the semi-centennial in a form which unites great 
historical value with high artistic excellence. The medallion is 
72 mm. high and 47 mm. wide. The obverse bears the figure of 
Minerva tending the lamp of learning and a motto from Lucre¬ 
tius, Naturae species ratioque; the reverse carries the inscription, 
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 1870~ 
1920 , and the portraits of the six members, namely: 
William Francis Allen, Historian 
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Geologist 
Philo Romayne Hoy, Physician, Naturalist 
Roland Duer Irving, Geologist 
Increase Allen Lapham, Naturalist, Geologist 
George Williams Peckham, Zoologist 
These men were selected as representative members of the 
Academy, out of a much longer list of persons who are well 
worthy of mention, as may be learned from the memorial address 
of Dr. Chamberlin (pp. 000-000). They are chosen in part for 
their intellectual eminence and for their services to the Acad¬ 
emy, and in part for the periods in which their lives and activi¬ 
ties fall. Three of them, Chamberlin, Hoy, and Lapham, were 
charter members of the Academy, and the others became mem¬ 
bers very early in its history. Each of them served as president 
of the Academy, except Lapham, who was its secretary from the 
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