402 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



SECTION OF ASTEONOMY, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. 



January 17, 1910. 



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

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

 Edward Thatcher was duly elected Secretary of the Section. 

 Professor Campbell then showed a new form of microscope for the 

 examination of metal surfaces of large size, such as a rail in place, a gun 

 barrel or large casting. 



The Section then adjourned. 



Edward J. Thatchek, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



January 24, 1910. 



Section met in conjunction with the American Ethnological Society at 

 8 :15 p. M., Gen. James Grant Wilson presiding. 



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

 The following programme was then offered : 



Franz Boas, The Changes in the Physical Characteristics of the 

 Immigrants to the United States. 



The paper embodied some of the results of the speaker's recent investi- 

 gations under the auspices of the United States Immigration Commis- 

 sion. In the discussion following the lecture, Professor Giddings, Dr. 

 Fishberg and Dr. Tenney took part. 



E. S. WOODWORTH, 



Sea-etary. 

 BUSINESS MEETING. 



February 7, 1910. 



The Academy met at 8 :15 p. m. at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, President Kemp presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

 The following candidates for active membership in the Academy, rec- 

 ommended by Council, were duly elected. 



Clarence Eoe Gardner, 401 Fifth Avenue, 

 Edmund B. Southwick, 206 West 83rd Street. 



