720 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts , and Letters . 
FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING, 1915. 
The forty-fifth annual meeting of the Wisconsin Academy 
of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, in conjunction with the 
Wisconsin Archeological Society, with the Wisconsin 
Audubon Society, the Madison Mycological Society, the 
Wisconsin Mycological Society, and the Wisconsin Natural 
History Society, was held at Madison on Thursday and 
Friday, April 1 and 2, 1915, in the Biology Building of the 
University of Wisconsin. The first session was held at 
2 o’clock on Thursday, April 1, President Dana C. Munro, 
presiding. After some preliminary business, the following 
programme of papers was presented: 
First Session, April 1—2 p. m. 
1. Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack. Bernice Stewart. 
Twenty minutes. 
2. The Allegory of the Text of the Vision of Piers the 
Plowman. Samuel Moore. Fifteen minutes. 
3. The Officium Stellae. Karl Young. By title. 
4. Methods of Measuring Intelligence. M. V. O’Shea. 
Thirty minutes. 
5. Recent Excavations and Bible Lands. L. B. 
Wolfenson. Thirty minutes. Lantern slide 
illustrations. 
6. Cyclical Unemployment; Causes and Suggested Rem¬ 
edies. Wilford I. King. Fifteen minutes. 
7. Some Features and Functions of a Museum of Natural 
History. Henry L. Ward. Ten minutes. 
8. Wild Life Conservation in Wisconsin. Marie Dick- 
ore. Ten minutes. 
9. Wild Life Conservation in Mississippi. Victor Kutch- 
in. Ten minutes. (Read by Marie Dickore.) 
10. Results of Federal Protection under the McLean 
Migratory Bird Law. A. Cleasby. Ten minutes. 
(Read by Marie Dickore.) 
11. Plant Pigments Other Than Chlorophyll. Nellie 
Wakeman. By title 
