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SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



January 19, 1903. 



The section met at 8:15, Vice-President Kemp presiding. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



Mr. George B. HoUister gave a description of " The Hydro- 

 graphic Work of the United States Geological Survey," 

 illustrated by lantern-slides and apparatus. After a short dis- 

 cussion of the paper, the thanks of the section were offered Mr. 

 Hollister and the section adjourned. 



Alexis A. Julien, 

 Secretary, pro ton. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



January 26, 1903. 



The section met in conjunction with the American Ethno- 

 logical Association, Professor Thorndike presiding. 



The following program was offered : 



Maurice Fishberg, The Ancient Semites and the Modern 

 Jews. 



H. H. St. Clair, 2d, Investigations among the Comanche 

 and Ute Indians. 



Summary of Papers. 



Dr. Fishberg's paper was as follows : 



The somatic characteristics of the ancient and the mod- 

 ern Semites were discussed in detail, the purest representa- 

 tives of the latter being the Arabian Bedouins. Their anthro- 

 pological type is distinctly African. The bas-reliefs of the an- 

 cient Semites, as represented on the Assyrian and Egyptain 

 monuments, are of the same type. The modern Jews are, on 

 the other hand, a distinctly Asiatic type physically ; they are 

 brachycephalic — cephalic index 82 with less than five per 

 cent, of heads having an index of 75 or less. Their head form 

 shows very little variability, but one important feature is that in 

 countries where the non-Jewish population is round-headed the 

 Jews are also round-headed. In Caucasia their cephalic in- 

 dex is d>y ; in eastern Europe, where the cephalic index of the 



