584 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
SECOND SUMMER MEETING. 
Beloit, Wis., June 7th, 1894. 
EVENING SESSION. 
The meeting was called to order by President Van Hise, in 
the Auditorium of Pearsons Hall. After announcements by 
the secretary and by Professor Collie of the Local Committee, 
the members of the Academy were addressed by President Eaton; 
subject, “Wordsworth—a forerunner of the scientist.” 
Friday, June 8th. 
MORNING SESSION. 
The meeting was called to order by President Van Hise at 
0 a. m. in the Physical Lecture Room of Pearsons Hall. 
The minutes of the twenty-fourth annual meeting were read 
and approved. A communication from the Scientific Alliance 
of New York City was read, asking the Academy to memorialize 
the postoffice department for a reduction of the rates of domes¬ 
tic and foreign postage on natural history specimens. On mo¬ 
tion of Dr. Birge, the council was directed to prepare and 
forward such a memorial. The followiug papers were then read 
and discussed: 
1. The organic structure of the mind, with particular refer¬ 
ence to the sensibilities. J. J. Blaisdell. 
2. The recent epidemic of typhoid fever in Ashland, Wis., 
and the water supply of the city. W. W. Daniells. 
3. Standards of purity for portable waters. E. G. Smith. 
4. General property tax in Rock county. R. C. Chapin. 
5. State banking in Wisconsin from 1852 to 1865. Clar¬ 
ence B . Hadden. 
6. Criticism of a pendulum problem in Barker’s physics 
T. A. Smith. 
7. An improved harmonograph. Charles H. Chandler. 
10. Account of the triangulation work done in Wisconsin to 
the present time. J. E. Davies. 
