Proceedings of the Academy. 
1227 
FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING, 1918. 
The forty-eighth annual meeting of the Wisconsin Academy of 
Sciences, Arts, and Letters, in joint meeting with the Wisconsin 
Archeological Society, was held at Madison on Thursday and 
Friday, April 11 and 12, 1918, in the Auditorium of the State 
Historical Museum. 
First Session, Thursday, April 11, 3:00 p. m. 
The meeting was called to order by Professor C. E. Allen, 
Vice-President for Sciences, as President Henry L. Ward was 
unable td be present on account of sickness. Dean Birge drew 
attention to the absence of President Ward in appropriate re¬ 
marks, and moved that the Secretary send a suitable letter of 
condolence to President Ward- This letter was sent at once. 
As this was the year for the election of officers, the chairman 
named the following nominating committee: Charles R. Van 
Hise, J. J. Davis/Charles S. Slichter. 
The chairman also appointed Albert S. Flint and Charles E. 
Brown as members of the committee to audit the Treasurer’s 
report. 
The following programme of papers was presented: 
1. Additional Wisconsin Peace Medals. Charles E. Brown. Ten 
minutes. 
2. Votive Offerings of Indian Pottery from Colombia, S. A. George A. 
Collie. Twenty-five minutes. 
3. The Stratigraphic Structure of Wisconsin Indian Mounds. Samuel 
A. Barrett. Twenty-five minutes. Illustrated. (Read in syn¬ 
opsis by the Secretary.) 
4. Effigy Mounds in Iowa. Charles E. Brown. Ten minutes. 
5. The State Collection of War Posters. Ruth O. Roberts. Fifteen 
minutes/ 
