ent at the meeting. The committee acted upon the names 

 submitted. 



Upon motion of W. E. Loomis it was voted that 500 copies 

 of the proceedings of the organization meeting be printed and 

 that one copy be furnishel to each member of the Society. 



The meeting then adjourned till 8 P. M. 



Evening Session. 



In the evening, to an audience of about six hundred, Dr. W 

 J McGee gave his lecture on "Greater Steps in Human 

 Progress." 



His address combined in a rare degree such facts as would 

 attract men of the highest scientific attainments and at the 

 same time the more popular audience also. It might be expected 

 that such a title, "Greater Steps in Human Progress," would 

 imply consideration of the remarkable manufacturing and com- 

 mercial advances which have characterized the last century. 

 His plan, however, was to note various habits and discoveries 

 of men which indicate evolution from a low physical and men- 

 tal equipment to the full expansion of man's faculties. Primi- 

 tive men were unable to open the hand so as to bring the 

 thumb in the same plane with the fingers. This was shown by 

 the aboriginal Philippine tribes which Dr. McGee assembled at 

 the St. Louis Exposition. 



Primitive man is characterized by movements of the hand 

 and arm toward the body, whereas his more highly developed 

 descendants directs these movements from the body. It is the 

 Anglo-Saxon who has shown this development in the highest 

 degree, and while in other respects prize-fighting is indicative of 

 the lower traits, in this one fact, namely, that the motions of 



