188 I XXALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Summary of Papers. 



The various papers were well illustrated with lantern slides and by 

 models loaned by the United States Aeronautical Reserve. 



The Section then adjourned. 



Edward J. Thatcher, 



Secretary. 



SECTIOX OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



30 January, 1911. 



Section met at 8:15 p. M., Gen. dames Grant Wilson presiding. 



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



The following programme was then offered: 



Pliny E. Goddard, The Distribution and Relationship of THt 



Apache. 



Summary of Paper. 



Dr. Goddard emphasized the fact that the Apache are divided into a 

 number of distinct political and dialectic groups ; while culturally, there 

 is a gradual transition as an observer proceeds from east to west from 

 the life of the buffalo-hunting Plains type into that of the Southwestern 

 culture as represented by the Pima. 

 The Section then adjourned. 



F. Lyman Wells, 



Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 

 6 February, 1911. 



The Academy met at 8 :20 p. m. at the American 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 candidates for membership in the Academy, recom- 

 mended by Council, were duly elected : 



Active Membership. 

 Herbert Lang, American Museum of Natural History. 



