428 A:NNALS new YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



SECTION OF ASTEONOMY, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTEY. 



November 21, 1910. 



Section met at 8:15 p. m., Vice-President Wm. Campbell presiding. 

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

 The following programme was then offered : 



Charles Conrad Sleffel, The Waste Wax Process of Casting Bronze. 



Summary of Paper. 



Mr. Sleffel explained the process in detail from the artist's model to 

 the finished and colored casting, showing that the ancient process differed 

 but slightly from the modern. The lecture was illustrated by actual 

 models and castings, also by lantern slides. 



Two letters of request for grants from the Esther Hen-man Research 

 Fund were read, one from Prof. C. C. Trowbridge, The sense of direction 

 in birds and animals. The other from Prof. W. Campbell as to the micro- 

 structure of metals. These letters were approved and referred to the 

 Council. 



The Section then adjourned. 



Edward J. Thatcher, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF ANTHEOPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



November 28, 1910. 



Section met in conjunction with the New York Branch of the American 

 Psychological Association at 4 p. m. at Columbia University. 

 The following programme was offered : 



F. Lyman Wells, Practise Effects in Free Association. 



H. L. Hollingsworth, Drowsiness. 

 Clyde Furst, Mental Hygiene. 



The evening programme was taken up at the American Museum of 

 Natural History at 8 :15 o'clock as follows: 



D. S. Miller, Subjectifying the Objective. 



F. J. E. Woodbridge, Secondary Qualities. 



Robert H. Lowie, A Forgotten Pragmatist, Ludwig Feuerbach. 



