NOVEMBER 10, 1905.] 
Dr. C. Harr Merriam, Washington, D. C.: 
‘Basket Cave Burial in California.’ Discussed 
by McLeod, Putnam. 
Mr. H. N. Rust, South Pasadena, Calif.: ‘The 
Obsidian Blades of Northern California.’ Dis- 
cussed by Putnam. 
Mr. 8. A. Barretr, University of California: 
asket Designs of the Pomo Indians.’ Discussed 
by C. H. Merriam. 
Dr. P. E. Gopparp, department of anthropology, 
University of California: ‘ Mechanical Aids to the 
Study and Recording of Language.’ Discussed by 
Putnam. 
Dr. J. C. Merriam, University of California: 
“Some Suggestions concerning the Origin of the 
Calaveras Skull.’ Illustrated with lantern slides. 
Discussed by Hill-Tout. 
Mr. CHARLES KEELER, Berkeley, Calif.: ‘ Crea- 
tion Myths and Folk Tales of the Manua Islands, 
Samoa.’ Discussed by Dixon. 
Mr. J. T. Goopman, Alameda, Calif.: ‘ The Maya 
Dates.’ Discussed by Putnam. 
eNO,” C WILLOUGHBY, assistant curator, Pea- 
body Museum of Harvard University: ‘ Specimens 
in the Peabody Museum collected by the Lewis 
and Clark Expedition.’ 
Mr. H. N. Rust, South Pasadena, Calif.: ‘ Ex- 
hibition of Implements from San Nicolas Island, 
used for Cutting and Working Shell Ornaments.’ 
Proressor Howard Swan, Imperial College, 
Peking, China: ‘A Systematic Arrangement for 
Recording Dialects.’ 
Proressor W. H. Hotmes, Washington, D. C.: 
* Antiquity of Man in North America.’ 
by Putnam, Peabody, Swan. 
Dr. F. C. Newcomes, Victoria, B. C.: ‘ Exhibi- 
Discussed 
Discussed 
tion of Northwestern Indian Designs.’ 
by Hill-Tout. 
BY TITLE. 
Mr. CuHartes F. Lummis, secretary of the 
Southwest Society, Los Angeles, of the Archeolog- 
ical Institute of America: ‘ Old Indian and Span- 
ish Folk Songs of the Southwest.’ Illustrated 
with phonograph records. 
Mr. C. P. Mackiz, Englewood, N. J.: ‘A Plea 
for the more Critical Use of History in Anthro- 
pological Research.’ 
Dr. GEORGE GRANT MacCurpy, Yale Univer- 
sity: ‘Eoliths from England and Belgium.’ 
Dr. C. Harr Merriam, Washington, D. C.: 
* Basketry of California Indians.’ 
Dr. ALBERT ERNEST JENKS, chief of the Ethno- 
logical Survey of the Philippine Islands, Manila: 
“The Peopling of the Philippines.’ 
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Dr. A. L. Krorper, University of California: 
‘Indian System of Consanguinity in California,’ 
Miss JEANNE ELizaBetTH WIER, Nevada State 
University: ‘The Washoe Indians of Nevada.’ 
Dr. N. B. Emerson, Honolulu, Hawaii: “ In- 
troduction to ‘ Unwritten Literature of Hawaii.’ ” 
Mrs. ZevIA Nurrann, director of the Crocker 
researches in Mexico for the department of an- 
thropology of the University of California: ‘The 
HKarliest Historical Communications between 
Japan and Mexico, from Original Documents pre- 
served in Archives of Japan, recently brought 
to Light by a Mexican Diplomat.’ 
Mr. Atvin SEALE, Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 
versity: ‘Ceremonies relating to Sickness and 
Death in the Solomon Islands.’ 
Miss Auice C. FLeTcHER, Washington, D. C.: 
‘The Harth Lodge and its Migrations.’ 
Mr. JAMES Mooney, Washington, D. C.: ‘ The 
Cheyenne Indians.’ 
Mr. JAMES Mooney, Washington, D. C.: ‘ The 
Caloosa Tribe of Florida.’ 
Dr. J. R. Swanton, Washington, D. C.: ‘ The 
Social Organization of American Tribes.’ 
Proressor W. H. Hotmes, Washington, D. C.: 
“Architecture of the Aborigines of North 
America.’ 
Proressor W. H. Hotmes, Washington, D. C.: 
“Use of Copper by the Aborigines of North 
America.’ ; 
Proressor W. H. Hotmes, Washington, D. C.: 
‘ Problematical Objects in the Prehistoric Archeol- 
ogy of North America.’ 
It was voted that no program be pro- 
posed for the meeting of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence, at New Orleans, and that the annual 
meeting be held at Ithaca, New York, in 
December, 1905. 
GEORGE GRANT MacCurpy, 

Secretary. 
YALE UNIvEeRSITY MUSEUM, 
NEw HAVEN, CONN. 
SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 
Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal. By the 
Rev. Joun T. Guuick. Washington, Car- 
negie Institution, August, 1905. 8yo. Pp. 
xii + 269; 3 pl. 
Dr. Gulick for more than thirty years has 
been an earnest advocate of the importance 
of segregation of groups of individuals as an 
