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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, FEBRUARY 14, 1908. 
To the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters :— 
Your secretary begs to submit the following report:— 
At the last annual meeting, the number of members of the Academy 
was: 
Honorary . 5 
Life . 13 
Active . 210 
Corresponding . 42 
Total . 270 
At the last meeting, 64 persons were elected to active membership and 
two have since been elected by the council. Of the 66 persons so 
elected, 58 have qualified by the payment of the initiation fee. During 
the year, one corresponding member and four active members have 
died. There has thus been a net gain of 54 active members and a loss 
of one in the corresponding list, making the present membership:— 
Honorary . 5 
Life . 13 
Active . 264 
Corresponding . 41 
Total . 323 
During the past year, the Academy has suffered the loss by death of 
the following five members: 
Rufus H. Halsey, president of the State Normal School at Oshkosh, 
any active member of the Academy since December 28, 1900, who died 
July 25, 1907, at Gogebic, Michigan. 
Katherine Herkimer Bones, principal of the Genoa Junction High 
School, elected to membership in the Academy February 8, 1907, who 
died at her home in Racine, September 7, 1907. 
Augustus J. Rogers, principal of the Milwaukee South Division High 
School and for many years a prominent educator of the state, an active 
member of the Academy since December 30, 1884, who died at his home 
in Milwaukee, November 2, 1907. 
James Lloyd Jones, a member of the Board of Regents of the Univer* 
sity of Wisconsin, elected to membership in the Academy February 7, 
1907, who died at his home at Hillside, November 22, 1907. 
William Kerr Higley, secretary of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 
and Editor of Birds and Nature, elected to membership in the Academy 
December 28, 1881, and a corresponding member since 1892, who died at 
Chicago, January 12, 1908. 
