1360 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
Mr. C. E. Brown introduced a resolution of congratulations 
to Professor E. W. Putnam of the Peabody Museum, Harvard 
University, on his distinguished services to the science of An¬ 
thropology; and Mr. S. A. Barrett introduced a similar resol¬ 
ution congratulating Professor E. B. Tylor, of the University 
of Oxford, on his distinguished services to the science of An¬ 
thropology. 
Resolved, That the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and 
Letters at its annual meeting in Milwaukee, February 17th to 
18th, 1910, send to Professor Frederick Ward Putnam, D. S., 
its greeting, and upon the occasion of his recent retirement, 
under the Carnegie Foundation, from active instruction as 
Professor of Alftropology of Harvard University and of the 
University of California, the Academy herewith transmits its 
congratulations to him upon his long career of active service 
in the interests of the science of anthropology, and 
Resolved, That the secretary of the Academy he instructed to 
see that a copy of this resolution is sent to Professor Putnam, 
and that the resolution be placed upon the minutes of this meet¬ 
ing and published in the regular Transactions of the Academy. 
Resolved, That the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, 
and Letters at its annual meeting in Milwaukee, February 17 th 
to 18th, 1910, send to Professor Edward Burnett Tylor, 
D. C. L., F. B. S. its greeting, and, upon the occasion of his 
retirement as professor of Anthropology in the University of 
Oxford, and as director of the Pitt-Bivers Museum, the 
Academy herewith transmits its congratulations to him upon 
the completion of his long career of active service in the in¬ 
terest of the science of anthropology, and 
Resolved. That the secretary of the Academy be instructed 
to see that a copy of this resolution is sent to Professor Tylor, 
and that the resolution be placed upon the minutes of this 
meeting and published in the Transactions of the Academy. 
Mr. S. A. Barrett introduced a resolution to the effect that 
the Academy would look with favor upon the establishment, of 
a Wisconsin branch of the American Folk-lore Society, and 
would co-operate with it in the study of folk-lore in Wisconsin. 
It was moved and voted that this resolution be laid over until 
