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Stated Meeting. 



January 25th, 1897. 



The Academy met and was called to order by President Stev- 

 enson. Mr. Jose M. Andreini, of 29 West 75th street, was 

 nominated for resident member, and the nomination was referred 

 in regular course to the Council. 



The sub-section of Anthropology and Psychology then organ- 

 ized, Professor F. H. Giddings in the Chair. The minutes of the 

 previous meeting were read and approved, after which the fol- 

 lowing reports of the recent winter meetings of the several socie- 

 ties mentioned below were presented : 



The first report was by Professor Giddings, upon the meeting 

 of the American Economic Association in Baltimore. The 

 speaker paid particular attention to the presidential address of 

 Professor Henry C. Adams, on " The Relations of Economics to 

 Jurisprudence;" to the paper of ex-Secretary of the Treasury, 

 Charles S. Fairchild, on " What is the Present Direction of Ac- 

 quisitive Investments ? What are the Economic Effects of Such 

 Investments?" and to Professor Arthur T. Hadley's paper on 

 " The Dut}' of the Government towards the Investor." 



Dr. Livingston Farrand presented brief abstracts of the more 

 important psychological papers read at the meeting of the 

 American Psychological Association in Boston, December 29 

 and 30, 1896, and was followed by Dr. Franz Boas, who spoke 

 of the meeting of Section H (Anthropology) of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, in New York, ap- 

 proving the action of the Section in recommending a regular 

 winter meeting, to be held, if possible, at the same time and 

 place as the American Psychological Association and the Ameri- 

 can Society of Naturalists, and reviewing briefly some of the 

 papers presented at the meeting. 



Mr. Harlan I. Smith reported on the American Folk-Lore 

 Society's meeting in New York, on December 20th, dwelling 

 particularly on Miss Fletcher's paper, " Certain Early Forms of 



