PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF 

 AMERICAN ANATOMISTS 



EIGHTEENTH SESSION. 



Wistar Institute of Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 



December 21, 2S and 29, lOOJf. 



At its business sessions the Association took the following actions: 



The secretary's m>nutes were corrected to the extent of making the fol- 

 lowing order, Section 2 of Article YII of the constitntion, as was the in- 

 tention of this Association hv the action taken at its Washington meeting 

 (1902) : "Any change in the constitution of this Association must be 

 presented in writing at one meeting in order to receive consideration and 

 be acted upon at the next meeting; due notice of the proposed change to 

 be sent to each member at least one month in advance of the meeting at 

 which such action is to be taken." 



Section 2 of Article YII of the constitution as prior to this change thus 

 becomes Section 3 of Article VII. 



The Committee of Cooperative Investigation reported as follows: 



" Circulars were sent to all members of the Association in September, 

 1903, requesting that observations be made upon three topics, namely: 



" 1. The origin, insertion and nerve supply of the brachialis anticus. 



" 2. Variations in the hepatic artery. 



" 3. Variations in the external origin of the spinal accessory nerve. 



" The circulars also contained a request that the data collected upon any 

 or all of these topics should be reported to the chairman of this committee 

 and a similar request was recently included in a notice issued by the 

 Secretary of the Association. 



" The committee regrets to state that but three reports have been 

 received, too few to be of value in the line of investigation which the 

 committee had in view. It would seem that for various reasons the 

 members of the Association are not interested in the object for which the 

 committee was appointed and the committee therefore requests that it 

 be discharged." 



Eespectfully submitted. 



J. Playfair Mc]\IuaKiCH, Chairman. 



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