[Title page] Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters vol. L

Officers of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters

Table of contents

Presidential address, pp. 1 ff.

An academy ... of arts and letters, Hughes, Merritt Y. pp. 3-14

Sciences, pp. 15-16

Preliminary reports on the flora of Wisconsin no. 44 Cruciferae-mustard family, Patman, Jacqueline P.; Iltis, Hugh H. pp. 17-73 ff.

Preliminary reports on the flora of Wisconsin. No. 45. Amaranthaceae-amaranth family, Sauer, Jonathan; Davidson, Robert pp. 75-87 ff.

Preliminary reports on the flora of Wisconsin no. 46. Caryophyllaceae-pink family, Schlising, Robert A.; Iltis, Hugh H. pp. 89-139 ff.

Notes on Wisconsin parasitic fungi. XXVII, Greene, H. C. pp. 141-161 ff.

A five-year survey of oat seed quality in Wisconsin, Forsyth, Dwight D. pp. 163-174

Hemlock reproduction and survival on its border in Wisconsin, Goder, Harold A. pp. 175-181 ff.

Characteristics and genesis of a podzol soil in Florence County, Wisconsin, Gaikawad, Shankar T.; Hole, Francis D. pp. 183-190

The geologic material: its impact on soil profile characteristics in west central Wisconsin, Wurman, E. pp. 191-202

The base of the St. Peter sandstone in southwestern Wisconsin, Thwaites, F. T. pp. 203-219 ff.

Water temperatures in a well near Wild Rose, Wisconsin, Summers, W. K. pp. 221-232

Nitidulidae collected from banana bait traps in Wisconsin, McMullen, L. H.; Shenefelt, R. D. pp. 233-237 ff.

Fading fins, Becker, George pp. 239-248

Arts and letters, pp. 249 ff.

Hawthorne's literary and aesthetic doctrines as embodied in his tales, Clark, Harry H. pp. 251-275 ff.

The actual and the imaginary: Hawthorne's concept of art in theory and practice, Kimbrough, Robert pp. 277-293 ff.

The Protestantism of the Abbé Prévost, Cooper, Berenice pp. 295-305 ff.

Existential nihilsm and Herman Melville, Boies, J. J. pp. 307-320

American Protestantism and the higher criticism, 1870-1910, Peterson, Walter F. pp. 321-329 ff.

Patterns of observation: a study of Hamlin Garland's middle border landscape, Whitford, Kathryn pp. 331-338

Illustrating political theory through speech- Charles Kendall Adams' "Representative British orations", Berquist, Goodwin F., Jr. pp. 339-344

The background of the adult education movement, Axford, Roger W. pp. 345-351 ff.

Etruscan and Tuscan parallels, a study of the Etruscan civilization and of the Florentine renaissance, Lobner, Corinna pp. 353-359 ff.

Index, pp. 361 ff.

Subject and author index to the papers published by the Academy, Mahony, Kenneth R. pp. 363-376 ff.