Proceedings of the Academy. 
1355 
FORTIETH ANNUAL MEETING. 
Held in conjunction with the Wisconsin Archeological So¬ 
ciety, the Wisconsin Mycological Society, and the Wisconsin 
Natural History Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 17- 
18, 1910. 
The meetings were held in the Lecture Room of the Public 
Museum. The following program was presented: 
Thursday, February 17. 
Morning Session , 10:30 o'clock. 
Reports of Officers and General Business. 
Presentation of papers. 
1. A New Type of Thermostat for Use in Physical Chemis¬ 
try. Arden P. Johnson. 
2. The Chemistry of Boron, and Some New Organo-horon 
Compounds. Arden R. Johnson. 
3. The Electro-Chemistry of Radio-active Elements. Arden 
R. Johnson. 
4. The Walden Inversion: A Critical Review. A. F. Mc¬ 
Leod. 
5. The Walden Inversion: Some Recent Experimental Re¬ 
sults. A. F. McLeod. 
6. Terpenes as Oxygen Conveyers. Edward Kremers. 
7. The Velocity of Light in Metals. L. R. Ingersoll. 
8. The Story of the Return from the Dead in Popular Tales 
and Popular Ballads. Arthur Beatty and Stith \Thompson. 
Afternoon Session, 2:00 o'clock. 
Presentation of Papers. 
9. An Ordinance of the City Council of Frankfort, refer¬ 
ring to dress, marriage festivals, haptismals, and such like 
things, of the year T598. Ernst Foss. An abstract. 
10. Some Specimens of a Forthcoming Translation of Lucre¬ 
tius. William Ellery Leonard. 
11. The Teacher of Literature. William Ellery Leonard „ 
