560 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
Securities owned by the Academy April 10, 1922: 
Government Bonds ...$ 700.00 
City of Madison Bonds. 2,600.00 
Certificate of Deposit. 76.38 
$3,376.38 
Chancey Juday, 
Treasurer. 
FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING, 1923 
The fifty-third annual meeting of the Wisconsin Academy was 
held at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, on April 6 and 7, 1923, 
in joint session with the Wisconsin Archeological Society. 
The following program was presented: 
First Session, Friday, April 6, 10:00 A. M. 
Presentation of Papers. 
1. Augustine of Hippo qua Patriot. E. K. Eichardson. 
2. Chartiludium Institute Summarrie Doctore Thoma Murner Memorante et 
Ludente. Strassburg, 1518. Ernst Voss. 
3. The Sentimental Eeturn to Nature in the Eighteenth Century. William 
E. Alderman. 
4. Botanical Collecting in Southwestern Wisconsin in 1922. Huron H. 
Smith. Illustrated. 
5 Eacial Characters in Sphaerocarpus and their Inheritance. C. E. Allen. 
Illustrated. 
6. Physiological Stability in Maize. W. E. Tottingham. 
7. Notes on Parasitic Fungi in Wisconsin. J. J. Davis. 
8. On the Nature of Disease Eesistance in Plants. J. C. Walker. 
9. The Nuclear Phenomena in Some of the Short-cycled Eusts. E. M. Gil¬ 
bert. 
10. The Corrected Names of Certain Milk Bacteria. Euth W. Chase and 
W. D. Frost. 
11. The Characteristics of Certain Fecal Bacteria as shown by the Little 
Plate Method. Ola E. Johnston and W. D. Frost. 
Second Session, Friday, April 6, 2:00 P. M. 
Presentation of Papers. 
12. Beloit Mound Groups. George L. Collie. 
13. Winnebago Chieftains and Villages of the Lower Eock Eiver Eegion. 
N. W. JiPSON. 
14. Eemoval of the Eock River Winnebago in 1833. Louise P. Kellogg. 
15. The Applications of Amerind Decorative Art. Mrs. W. E. Tylor. 
16. Prehistoric Archeology in Prance. A. W. Pond. Illustrated. 
