1010 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
Publication Committee: The president and secretary ex 
officio, E. B. Skinner. 
Library Committee: The librarian ex officio, Herbert J. 
Earley, George W. Peckham, Hiram D. Densmore, George 
Wagner. 
Committee on Membership: The secretary ex officio, B. 
H. Halsey, Harriet B. Merrill, D. C. Munro, L. A. Youtz. 
By vote of the Academy, the secretary was directed to cast 
the ballot of the Academy for the persons named. The ballot 
■cast, the persons named in the committee’s report were declared 
elected for the ensuing term of three years. 
The council recommended to the Academy that Dr. John J. 
Davis, retiring president, and E. B. Skinner, retiring secre¬ 
tary, be elected to life membership in the Academy in view of 
their services to the Academy. Dr. Birge was directed to cast 
the ballot of the Academy for these two gentlemen. The ballot 
cast, they were declared elected life members. 
The auditing committee reported that they had examined 
the accounts of the treasurer and had found them correct in 
every respect. They recommended that the treasurer open an 
account with the permanent fund, and that when such account 
should be opened the treasurer should report to the present au¬ 
diting committee. This feature of the report was sanctioned 
by the Academy. 
The council reported the selection of Hon. John W. Hoyt 
and C. Dwight Marsh, both of Washington, D. C., as dele¬ 
gates to attend the Eranklin celebration at the University of 
Pennsylvania, April 17-20, 1906. They also named Dr. Er¬ 
nest R. Buckley of Rolla, Missouri, as delegate to the dinner 
commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the 
St. Louis Academy of Science at St. Louis, March 10, 1906. 
Ho delegate was named to attend the celebration of the 
twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the Royal Geograph¬ 
ical Society of Australasia.. 
The report of the exchange committee was then taken up as 
a special order. The following recommendations of the com¬ 
mittee were adopted by vote of the Academy: 
