Secretary's Report. 
731 
Afternoon Session, 2:00 o'clock. 
28. Some Cladocera of South America. Harriet B. Merrill. 
29. Some new Diaptomi from' the western states. C. Dwight 
Marsh. 
30. A new Arrenurus and notes on collections. Ruth Mar¬ 
shall. 
31. The birds seen on a Milwaukee home garden in 1903. 
I. N. Mitchell. 
32. The summer birds of Stony Lake, Oceana County, 
Michigan. I. N. Mitchell. 
33. On Milwaukee County Odomata, Charles E. Brown. 
34. The re-awakening of the interest in Wisconsin antiqui¬ 
ties. Henry A. Crosby arid Charles E. Brown. 
35. A study in the variation of proportions in bats. Henry 
L. Ward. 
36. The Polyporeae of Wisconsin. J. J. Neumann. (By 
title.) 
37. Saskatchewan Birds. Russell T. Cong don. (By title.) 
38. Conformal representation of plane curves, particularly 
for the cases, p — 4, 5 and 6. Charlotte E. Pengra. (By title.) 
39. Shakespeare as a cicerone in girdling the globe. James 
Davie Butler. (By title.) 
A more detailed account of the various sessions is given be¬ 
low: 
Tuesday, December 29. 
Morning Session. 
The Academy was called to order at 10:30 by President 
Davis. The reading of the minutes of the last session was dis¬ 
pensed with. The Secretary reported that since the last meet¬ 
ing Volume XIV, Part I, of the Transactions of the Academy, 
containing fifteen papers and thirty-three plates, had been pub¬ 
lished and distributed. He reported also* that the printing com¬ 
missioners had permitted the employment of engravers outside 
-of the state, a circumstance which would allow much greater 
choice of methods in the re-production of illustrations for 
papers printed in the Transactions. The Secretary asked that 
the Academy define the term, Secretary’s expenses, in the reso¬ 
lution of December 27, 1903. He asked also that a committee 
