Secretary's Report. 
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REPORT OF SECRETARY, 1903. 
Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 29-30, 1903. 
The meetings of the Academy were held in Room B—3 of the 
Milwaukee Formal School building. The following program 
was carried out with some changes in the order of the papers: 
Tuesday, December 29. 
Morning Session , 10:80 o'clock. 
Reports of officers and general business. 
Reading of papers. 
1. A query concerning the longevity of college graduates. 
Chas. H. Chandler. 
2. A problem in conformal representation. II. C. Wolff. 
3. The probable accuracy of estimates and guesses. E. F. 
Chandler. 
4. A simple treatment of the relative angular and linear ve¬ 
locities in compleex mechanisms. 0. B. Zimmerman. 
5. Waves peculiar to ground water movements. C. S. 
Slichter. 
6. An apparatus designed for teaching celestial geography. 
W. L. Rankin. 
Afternoon Session, 2:00 o'clock. 
7. The collective theory of mind. S. Plantz. 
8. Auditory memory-span for numbers in school children. 
John I. Jegi. 
9. How children learn to spell. C. E. Patzer. 
10. A Wisconsin group of German poets. Henry E. Legler. 
11. Some factors in the pej oration of English words. W. G. 
Bleyer. 
12. The quinhydrone hypothesis of plant pigmentation. 
Edward Kremers. 
