Excerpt from Library of the University of Wisconsin Minute on the Death of Joseph R. Woodwell Minute on the Death of Albert J. Barr Report of Auditing Committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twenty-Ninth Annual Joint Debate: Of the University of Wisconsin Held at Library Hall, December 16, 1898 There is, Of course, a great obstacle in the way of the introduce tion of such a system of ownership and control in American cities, and that is the acquisition of the properties. European street railways are insignificant when their values are compared with the immense systems in the United States. The condem nation, under the right of eminent domain, of a continental street railway worth perhaps three or four hundred thousand dollars, and the assumption of the road by the city at a fair valu ation is but a bagatelle compared with the taking over of the street railways of a city like Chicago, worth at the least calcula tion from seventy - five to a hundred million dollars. But the city of Chicago has the power to obtain practically all the advantages of actual ownership if it. Will but choose capable men to act for it in the common council, men who will thor oughly and conscientiously apply themselves to the solution of the problem. The street railway companies Of Chicago have on the whole given the city excellent service. They have aided greatly in the distribution of population over wider areas, and have no doubt created large real estate values. Ivhile profiting themselves with the growth of the city they have nevertheless contributed much to its growth. They have adopted a very lib eral extension policy, so liberal that Chicago has today more miles of street railway than any other city in the world. Mil lions of dollars of capital have been brought to the city and in vested. In some cases, as for example the elevated roads, years must elapse before adequate returns on the actual cost are de rived. Millions have been spent in experimentation, reconstrue tion and in the development of the system. These things must be taken into consideration, in a careful study of the situation, and it is these very things which are sometime-s entirely ignored by the reformer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Catalog of the Library of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 1893: Extracted From the Transactions of the Academy Albany [new York] University of State of New York. Annual Report of Regents 1872, 74 - 85, 87 - 90, Extension Bulletin No. 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from University Extension: An Address Delivered Before the Wisconsin Teachers' Association, at Madison, December 29, 1890 In the carrying out of the courses, various auxiliary means are made use of to give effectiveness and interest. A syl labus, containing an analysis of each lecture, a list of refer ence and text-books on the subject, quotations, statistics, subjects for short essays, or papers by the students, is a common, indeed a nearly universal, expedient. In some in stances, a traveling library is made use of, consisting of a small selection of books, especially applicable to the sub ject of the course, which is kept in a strong chest that serves at once as a bookcase anda shipping box. These books are either loaned in rotation, or deposited in some accessible room for reference. TO avoid carrying about cumbersome diagrams and specimens, a projecting lantern is much used as a means of illustration. Local museums, private collections and local school apparatus are made serv iceable, as far as practicable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum’s landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential scholarly tools still in use to this day: the library catalog and the “biobibliographical” reference work. Kallimachos expanded the library’s inventory lists into volumes called the Pinakes, which extensively described and categorized each work and became in effect a Greek national bibliography and the source and paradigm for most later bibliographic lists of Greek literature. Though the Pinakes have not survived, Blum attempts a detailed reconstruction of Kallimachos’s inventories and catalogs based on a careful analysis of surviving sources, which are presented here in full translation.

Excerpt from Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters: List of Exchanges Chapel Hill, N. C 1. The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. Chicago, 111. 1. Association of Engineering Societies. 2. Field Columbian Museum. 3. Journal of Geology, University of Chicago. 4. John Crerar Library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests; the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.