1008 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters . 
Edward Dwight Eaton, pastor of the Congregational church 
at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, for many years president of Be¬ 
loit college and an educator of known ability and wide reputa¬ 
tion in this state. 
Ilenry Nehrling, of Gotha, Orange county, Florida, former¬ 
ly curator of the Milwaukee Public museum and author of 
“Birds of North America/’ an important ornithological work. 
The exchange committee appointed last year presented an 
extended report through its chairman, George Wagner. The 
report appears in full on another page. The committee an¬ 
nounced that through its efforts there had been added to tire 
library 1,102 volumes and 518 parts of volumes. It presented 
several recommendations and asked that further consideration 
of the report be made a special order for Friday morning. It 
was so ordered. 
The secretary presented invitations from various societies 
and academies to send representatives to celebrations as fol¬ 
lows: 
From the American Philosophical Society, to send delegates 
to the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth 
of Benjamin Franklin, to be held at the University of Penn¬ 
sylvania, April 17-20, 1906. 
From the St. Louis Academy of Science, to send a dele¬ 
gate to a dinner commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 
foundation of the academy, to be given in St. Louis, March 10, 
1906. 
From the Boyal Geographical Society of Australasia, to 
send a delegate to the celebration of the twenty-first anniver¬ 
sary of the founding of the society. 
These invitations were referred to the council with power 
to choose delegates. 
The president announced the following committee on nomi¬ 
nation of officers: Messrs. C. R. Van Hise, E. A. Birge, 
George W. Peckham, Samuel Plantz and E. B. Skinner. 
It was voted to put the hour of meeting for the afternoon 
session at four o’clock to enable the members to attend the fu¬ 
neral of the late Professor D. B. Frankenburger. 
