REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN 

 ANATOMISTS. 



The eleventh annual session was held in New York City, Dec. 28- 

 30, in conjunction with the "Naturalists" and other affiliated societies. 

 Most of the meetings were held at the Medical Department of Colum- 

 bia University. Forty-one members attended and twenty new members 

 joined, making a total membership of one hundred and forty-one, of 

 whom ten are honorary. The localities and names of the new mem- 

 berf are as follows: From Ann Arbor, Prof. J. P. McMurrich, Univ. 

 of Michigan ; from Baltimore, Professors F. P. Mall and L. F. Barker, 

 and Associate R. G. Harrison, of the Johns Hopkins University; from 

 Buffalo, Dr. N. S. Russell, assistant in anatomy, Univ. of Buffalo; 

 from Ithaca, Dr. L. Colville, lecturer and demonstrator in anatomy, 

 Cornell University Med. College; from Montreal, Dr. J. G. Mac- 

 Carthy, senior demonstrator of anatomy, McGill University; from New 

 York City, Prof. J. D. Erdmann of Bellevue Med. College; Dr. Eve- 

 lyn Garrigues, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, Womans Medical 

 College; Dr. Ales HrdUcka, associate in anthropology. Pathological 

 Institute of N. Y. Hospitals; and the following assistant demonstrators 

 of anatomy in Columbia University : Doctors G. E. Brewer, C. Car- 

 malt, H. D. Collins, G. VV. Craig, W. Martin, W. H. Rockwell, and 

 A. S. Vosburgh; from Philadelphia, Prof. J. C. Heisler of theMedico- 

 Chirurgical College ; from Savannah, Dr. E. R. Corson ; from Wash- 

 mgton, D. C, Dr. C. I. West, demonstrator and lecturer in topograph- 

 ical anatomy, Howard University. 



The address of the president. Dr. Burt G. Wilder, discussed 

 "Misapprehensions as to the Simplified Nomenclature"; the speaker 

 urged especially a fuller recognition of what had been done by the 

 English anatomists, Barclay, Owen, Pye-Smith and T. Jeffery Parker, 

 and hoped the nomenclature of the future would be called the "Anglo- 

 American." 



The Association voted that abstracts of papers be required in ad- 

 vance, and that brief abstracts be included in the program ; that the 

 time for reading papers be limited to thirty minutes; that the Secretary- 

 Treasurer be allowed his railroad fare and ten dollars toward his hotel 

 expenses at each meeting. The Association also accepted the propo- 



