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Dr. Edward Browning Meigs, Dairy Division, Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. John R. Mohler, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Clarence Aurelius Skinner, Bureau of vStandards, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Dr. Thomas Elliott Snyder, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Louis Bryant Tuckerm.\n, Bureau of Standards, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Robert B. vSosman, Corresponding Secretary. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



543D MEETING 



The 543d meeting of the Anthropological Society of Washington was 

 held in room 42-43 of the National Museum, at 4.45 on Tuesday, 

 February 3, 1920. Program: 



Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Associate of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington: The foremost civilization of Central America. Mr. 

 Morley traced the rise and fall of the Maya empire and by means of 

 charcoal drawings explained the calendar systems of the ancient 

 Yucatecans. 



544TH meeting 



The 544th meeting was held jointly with the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences in the auditorium of the National Museum, at 8.15 p.m. 

 on Saturday, March 6, 1920. Program: 



W. H. R. Rivers: Ethnology, its aims and needs. 



545TH meeting 



The 545th meeting was held jointly with the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia in the 

 assembly hall of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, at 8.15 p.m. 

 on Wednesday, March 31, 1920. Program: 



Sir Arthur Newsholme: The national importance of child welfare 

 work. (See proceedings of the Academy for an abstract of the lec- 

 ture K) 



546TH meeting 



The 546th meeting was held at the National Museum at 4.45 p.m. 

 on Tuesday, April 6, 1920. Program: 



J. A. Jeancon: Antiquities of the Jemez Plateau, New Mexico. 



Among all of the areas of the Southwest which offer material for 

 the study of American archaeolog}^ there is not one which presents to 

 the man engaged in research of that kind a finer and more responsive 

 field than the Jemez Plateau of New Mexico. Some work has been 



1 This Journal, 10: 394. 1920. 



