ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 137 



Ninetv-Second Regular Meeting, March 3, 1885. 



Major J. W. Powell, the President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary being absent the minutes were not read. Tlie 

 President announced that on account of the small attendance the 

 Council had thought best to defer the regular program till another 

 meeting, and that a portion of the time would be occupied by him- 

 self. He then addressed the Society upon Patriarchy, and the 

 conditions of savage society which preceded and led to it. 



He was followed by Mr. Gushing in some remarks upon artificial 

 age and parentage among the Zunis, illustrated by his own experi- 

 ence. 



Ninety-Third Regular Meeting, March 17th, 1885. 



Major J. W. Powell, President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary of the Council announced the election of Prof. 

 W. C. Kerr, of Raleigh, N. C, as a corresponding member, and 

 Mr. E. R. L. Gould, of Washington, D. C, as an active member 

 of the Society. 



The following papers were then read : 



" Study of the Circular Rooms in the Ancient Pueblos," 

 by Mr. Victor Mindeleff. 



"Circular Architecture Among the Ancient Peruvians," 

 by Mr. W. H. Holmes. 



discussion. 



Prof. Mason. A very interesting separation has been made by 

 the speakers of the evening without design. The subject for discus- 

 sion is " Circular Architecture of the American Aborigines." Now 

 in discus ing this theme we may have regard either to structure or 

 function. If Mr. Turner had not been called away he would have 

 told us of the Eskimo igloo, or winter temporary hut of ice or snow; 

 Mr. Mindeleff described at length the circular rooms in the pueblo 

 structures of our southwest territory, and Mr. Holmes has dwelt 

 upon the chulpas. Structurally we have the material at hand 



