208 A2?NALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



22 May, 1911. 



By permission of the Council, no meeting was held. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 

 9 October, 1911. 



The Academy met at 8:17 p. M. at the x\meriean Museum of Natural 

 History, Vice-President Kunz presiding in the absence of President 

 Boas. 



The minutes of the last business meeting were read and approved. 



The following candidate for active membership in the Academy, recom- 

 mended by Council, was duly elected : 



Silas C. Wheat, Brooklyn, N T . Y". 

 The Recording Secretary pro tern then reported the following deaths: 



Mrs. Esther Herrman, a Patron for 30 years, 

 Charles H. Senff, a Patron for 16 years, 

 G. Johnston Stoney, an Honorary Member for 8 years, 

 A. B. Meyer, a Corresponding Member for 22 years, 

 Samuel Scudder, a Corresponding Member for 35 years. 



The Recording Secretary pro Inn reported thai invitations had l>een 

 received by the Academy to send accredited delegates to centennials and 

 celebrations of the Natural History Society in Gorlitz, the National 

 University of Greece, the Sixteenth International Congress of Oriental- 

 ists and the Eighteenth International Congress of Americanists. Council 

 will take steps to ascertain whether any foreign or corresponding mem- 

 bers of the Academy are likely to be present at such celebrations to serve 

 as accredited delegates. 



Council also reported favorable consummation of the negotiations witli 

 the St. Louis Academy of Sciences for the mutual exchange of publica- 

 tions. Similar arrangements are to be taken up with the California 

 Academy of Sciences and the Chicago Academy of Sciences. 



The Recording Secretary pro tern reported that the President bad 

 appointed a committee consisting of Professors James F. Kemp and 

 Henry E. Crampton to prepare a suitable minute relative to the recent 

 decease of Mrs. Esther Hen-man. to be spread upon the minutes of the 

 Academy and to be sent to the relatives of Mrs. Herrman. Professor 

 Kemp thereupon presented the following minute : 



