of officers, and reported in favor of the following, who were duly elected: Honorary Vice Presiden! Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, to succeed Dr. Francis Parkman, of Massachusetts, deceased Vice President Hon. R. L. McCormick, of Hayward, Sawyer county, to succeed Hon. Joshua J. Guppey, of Portage, deceased. Curator, for the term expiring at the annual meeting in 1894, in the place of Hon. Charles E. Estabrook, removed from city - Arthur L. Sanborn. Curator, for the term expiring at the annual meeting in 1895, in the place of Maj. Charles G. Mayers, deceased - Hon. Robert G. Siebecker. Curators for the term expiring at the annual meeting in 1896 - Hon. Buell E. Hutchinson, Hon. N. B. Van Slyke, Gen Chandler P. Chapman, Hon. Hiram H. Giles, Prof. J. B. Parkinson, Hon. George B. Burrows, Hon. John A. Johnson, Prof. J. C. Freeman, Hon Rasmus B. Anderson, Hon. Burr W. Jones, Dr. Charles K. Adams, Mr. Frederic K. Conover. NEW MEMBERS. The chair appointed Messrs. Fairchild, Proudfit, Brown, Conover, and Steensland a committee on the nomination of new members, and on the recommendation of this committee the following were elected: Life - Hon. Nils P. Haugen, River Falls; Prof. James R. Stuart, Madison. Active Hon. Ellis B. Usher, La Crosse; Montgomery E. MacIntosh and Charles E. McLenegan, Milwaukee; Hon. J. B. Winslow, Hon. A. W. Newman, Hon. John C. Spooner, Hon. Horace A. Taylor, and Prof. Victor E. Coffin, Madison. Corresponding-George R. Peck, Esq., Chicago; Dr. G. Devron, New Orleans; Dr. William Copley Winslow, Boston; Capt. Alexander McDougall, Esq., Duluth. ADDRESSES. Addresses were then presented as follows, for the full text of which see Appendix: Prehistoric Pottery - Middle Mississippi Valley, by James Davie Butler. The Significance of the Frontier in American History, by Frederick Jackson Turner. A Brief History of the Elective Franchise in Wisconsin, by Florence Elizabeth Baker. The Financial History of Wisconsin Territory, by Matthew Brown Hammond. Copper Currency in Louisiana in Colonial Times (1721-1726), by G. Devron. . The several reports and papers were ordered printed with the proceedings of the Society, whereupon the meeting stood adjourned. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. A short meeting of the executive committee was held at the close of the Society meeting, President Johnston in the chair. It was ordered that the salary of the registrar be placed upon a basis of $600 per annum, and the salary of the library attendant was fixed at $525 per annum. W. A. P. Morris, Esq., as one of the executors of the late Lyman C. Draper, made a statement of the conditior. of the estate, and asked that a sub committee might be appointed to confer with him in regard to the Society's interests therein. Upon motion to that effect, the chair appointed Messrs. Van Slyke, Jones and Gregory as such sub-committee. The meeting thereupon stood adjourned. APPENDIX. A.-FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. General Fund. Statement of expenditures therefrom, during the Society's fiscal year ending November 30, 1893, submitted to the auditing committee of the Society, Dec. 5, 1893, by Reuben G. Thwaites, corresponding secretary. Adams Express Co., freight.. Amer. Antiquarian Soc., Worcester, Mass., Amer. Dialect Soc., Cambridge, Mass., pubs. ་ Amer. Historical Assn., N. Y., pubs. Ballard, H. H., Pittsfield, Mass., book. Beyer, J. V., Milwaukee, packing books. Bradley, I. S., librarian, trav. exp.. $24 60 2.50 15 00 10 3.00 3.00 67 49 3.00 6.50 2.00 3.50 2.00 14.00 6.00 10 00 45 00 10 00 3.00 15 00 250 (2 2.20 6 25 10 00 25.00 9.00 1 60 7.50 149 15 12.00 603 09 54.50 51 50 36 35 34 Sept. 12, '93 35 Nov. 27, '93, 36 Dec. 31, '92 37 Feb. 13, '93 38 May 22, '93 39 May 12, 93 40 May 11, '93 41 Jan. 2, '93 42 Feb. 14, '93 43 April 1, 93 44 June 17, '93 45 July 8, 93 46 Aug. 7,93 47 July 11, 93 48 May 26, '93 49 July 14, '93 50 July 7,93 51 Dec. 22, '92 52 Jan. 9, '93 53 July 6, '93 54 Nov. 23, '93 55 Nov. 23, '93 56 Jan. 5, 93 57 Mch. 16, '93 58 July 29, 93 59 Aug. 7, 93 60 Sept. 16, '93 61 Dec. 22, 92 62 Mch. 4, 93 63 April 22, '93 64 May 12, '93 65 Mch. 28, 93 66 June 20, '93 67 Mch. 11, 93 68 Nov. 22, 93 69 Mch. 11, 93 70 July 27, 93 71 Dec. 12, '92 72 Mch. 2, '93 73 Feb. 15, '93 74 July 8,93 75 July 8, '93 76 Dec. 23, 92 77 Oct. 7,93 78 Oct. 18, 93 79 Mch. 4, 93 80 June 19, 93 81 Dec. 13, '92 82 Oct. 28, '93 83 Aug. 17, 93 84 Dec. 12, '92 85 May 25, '93 86 Feb. 24, 93 87 Apl. 22, 93 4, 93 88 Oct. 27, '93 Bradley, I. S., librarian, trav. exp. I uck, Mrs. J. S., Milwaukee, books. Hale, George W., Lawrence, Mass., book.. Henkels, S. V., Phila., books. $24 47 475 5 25 34 00 16 75 6 50 13.00 18 91 11 40 11 92 9.50 250 12 00 2.50 175 4 50 4 00 4.00 47 44 498 2.20 3.00 45 50 3 50 2 70 10 00 12 20 3.00 5.00 225 51 00 9.50 5.00 44 25 35 00 1 60 260 5.00 500 2.00 2.00 2.50 4 50 1.00 250 4.00 350 17 25 2.50 750 39 87 20 90 11 25 100 00 5.00 5.00 2.50 93 Nov. 11, '93 94 Nov. 3,93 95 May 4, '93 96 Mch. 31, 93 97 Feb. 11, 93 93 May 9, '93 99 May 16, '93 100 Oct. 20, '93 101 July 10, 193 102 Oct. 20, '93 103 Feb. 13, '93 104 Feb. 13, 93 105 Oct. 20, 93 106 Mch. 4, '93 107 Oct. 26, '93 108 Nov. 27, '93 109 Jan. 28, '93 110 Dec. 13, '92 111 Feb. 13, '93 112 Sept. 14, 93 113 Nov. 24, 93 114 July 27, 93 115 Aug. 5, '93 116 Apl. 21, 93 117 Aug. 17 93 118 Jan. 19, '93 119 Jan. 17, '93 120 Apl. 6, 93 121 Jan. 20, '93 122 Mch. 15, '93 123 July 3, '93 124 Mch. 17, 93 125 June 3, '93 126 June 17, '93 127 Oct. 21, 93 128 Nov. 1, 93 129 Nov. 13, '93 130 Nov. 24, '93 131 Nov. 20, '93 132 July 28, '93 133 Jan. 17, '93 134 July 17, '93 135 Sept. 26, '93 136 Feb. 12, '93 137 Dec. 7, 92 138 Nov. 13, '93 139 Dec. 24, '92 140 May 21, '93 141 July 8, '93 142 Feb. 13, '93 143 June 2, '93 144 Mch. 3, '93 145 Jan. 24, 93 146 Sept. 27, '93 147 Dec. 12, '93 148 Oct. 26, '93 149 May 13, '93 150 Aug. 17, '93 Henkels, S. V., Phila., books.. Mitchell & Hughes, London, books. Moseley, J. E., Madison, pict. frames. Our Day Pub. Co., Ticonderoga, N. Y., books Salisbury, E. E., New Haven, Ct., books... $5.00 4.00 45.00 2. 00 80 28 40 80 2 10 1 20 2.50 3.00 6.00 40.00 11 40 78 53 8 75 4 95 25.00 5.00 848 19 17 25 1 68 4 50 18 25 343 45 28 67 3 03 5 45 5 10 2.00 10 00 19 25 470 3 25 4 50 4.70 755 50 00 4 00 135 1 35 1 16 3.50 20 09 30 00 6.05 10 50 3.00 2.00 3 66 2 75 100 00 4. 50 50 00 15.00 18.00 225 |