Proceedings of the Academy. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY, 
1917 AND 1918 
FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING, 1917. 
The forty-seventh annual meeting of the Wisconsin Academy 
of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, in joint meeting with the Wiscon¬ 
sin Archeological Society, was held at Milwaukee, on Thursday 
and Friday, April 12 and 13, 1917, in the Trustees’ Room of the 
Milwaukee Public Museum. 
First Session, Thursday, April 12, 3 p. m. 
President H. L. Ward called the meeting to order. The com¬ 
mittee to audit the Treasurer’s accounts was appointed, George 
Wagner and Samuel A. Barrett being named. The reports of 
the Secretary and Treasurer were read. 
The following programme of papers was presented: 
1. The Pompeius Strabo Inscription in the Palazzo dei Conservatori. 
M. iS. Slaughter. By title. 
2. The influence of French Farce on the Towneley Cycle of Mystery 
Plays. Louis Wann. By title. 
3. Lumberjack Songs and Legends in the North West. K. Bernice 
Stewart. Twenty minutes. 
4. An Ethnological Trip to Labrador and Hudson Bay. E. W. 
Hawkes. Twenty minutes. Illustrated. 
5. Ethical Tales of the Eskimo. E. W. Hawkes. Twenty minutes. 
Illustrated. 
6. The Cotton-tail in Paiute Mythology. ;S. A. Barrett. Fifteen 
minutes. 
7. The Anthropological Groups of the Milwaukee Public Museum. 
iS. A. Barrett. Ten minutes. Illustrated. 
8. The New System of Taxidermy for Large Animals. Henry L. 
Ward. Five minutes. 
