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killed the spirit never revived. The Biloxi do 

 not talk about the thunder being in cloudy 

 weather, because that being is very mysterious. 

 Thunder stories can not be told except on a fair 

 day. When the Biloxi see a humming bird they 

 say that a stranger is coming. They say a hum- 

 ming bird always tells the truth. When the fire 

 crackles it is a sign of snow or rain. A mutch 

 hotch picking on a house is a sign of coming 

 death. If a child steps over a grindstone its 

 growth will be stopped. No Biloxi will kill or 

 eat a snipe, because that bird always gathers 

 deer fat, was the sister of the thunder being, and 

 an account of her appears in the myth of the 

 thunder being. 



The following-named papers were then read 

 and discussed before the section. 



" Songs of Sequence of the Navajos " (illustrated by 

 the phonograph), by Washington Mathews ; " The 

 Result of Excavations at the Ancient Argillite Quar- 

 ries, recently discovered near the Delaware Eiver on 

 Gaddes Euu," by H. C. Mercer " Indian Migrations," 

 by C. Stainland Wake ; " The Instinctive Interest ot 

 Children in Bear and Wolf Stories," by William H. 

 Brewer; "The Delicacy of the Sense of Taste among 

 Indians," by E. H. S. Bailey ; " Caches of the Saginaw 

 Valley," by Harlan I. Smith ; " Is the Polysynthesis 

 of Duponceau characteristic of American Indian 

 Languages," by John N. B. Hewitt; "Primitive 

 Woman as a Poet" and "Some Drawings by*Koote- 

 nay Indians," by Alexander F. Chamberlain : " Psy- 

 chology at the World's Fair," by Joseph Jastrow 

 " Some Account of a Purification Ceremony and 

 a Sacred Stone in Use among the Mission Indians 

 of California," " The Indian Stone Adzes," and " Some 

 Facts concerning the Obsidian Blades called Swords, 

 from Northern California," by Horatio N. Rust; 

 " Observations in Regard to the Use of Argillite by 

 Prehistoric People, made by Explorations of Ancient 

 Village Sites in the Delaware Valley," by Ernest 

 Volk ; " The Evidence of Glacial Man in America," 

 by G. Frederick Wright : " The Antiquity of Man in 

 America," by W J McGee ; " The Prehistoric Man 

 of Mexico," by A. 8. Herrera ; " Buried Deposits of 

 Hornstone Disks," bv John F. Snyder; "A Shawnee 

 Town and its Exploration," by William E. Myer ; 

 " Remarks upon Sheet-copper Designs from the 

 Hopewell Group, Ohio," by Warren K. Moorehead ; 

 " The Ancient Necropolis of Ancon, Peru," by George 

 A. Dorsey ; " Another Ancient Source of Jasper 

 Blade Material East of the Middle Alleghanies," by 

 H. C. Mercer " Remarks on the Mexican Calendar 

 System,'' by Daniel G. Brinton ; " Theory of Primal 

 Shaping Arts," by William H. Holmes; "Indian 

 Names for the Four Winds and Four Quarters," by 

 J. Owen Dorsey , " Notes for an Archaeological 

 Study of La Plata Island, Ecuador " and " A Cere- 

 mony of the Quichua Indians of Peru," by George A. 

 Dorsey; "The Sacrifice of the White Dog," by 

 Charles A. Hirschfelder ; " The Relation between My- 

 thopeia and Euhemerism," by Merwin M. Snell ; and 

 " Revision of Calendar," by Ada M. King. 



I. Economic Science and Statistics. This 

 section was presided over by Prof. William H. 

 Brewer, of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale 

 University, who chose " The Mutual Relations 

 of Science and Stock Breeding " as the subject 

 of his vice-presidential address. The production 

 of crops and the production of animals are the 

 two great branches of agriculture. The applica- 

 tion of science to the production of crops have 

 been more conspicuously before the public than 

 have been similar applications to the produc- 

 tions of animals. There could be no compre- 

 hensive science of agriculture until there was a 

 science of chemistry, and the modern revolution 



in the art and practice of agriculture has come- 

 about as the science of chemistry advanced and 

 mechanical invention progressed. The applica- 

 tion of scientific methods to the economic breed- 

 ing of farm animals came much later and fol- 

 lowed the publication of Darwin's " Origin of 

 Species." As an art, breeding attained a high 

 standard long ago in the production of some 

 fine examples of particular breeds ; but, except- 

 ing Arabian horses and certain game fowl, cross- 

 ing was the universal method practiced in Euro- 

 pean countries. The modern method of im- 

 provement within the breed, keeping the blood 

 pure, has been the outcome of scientific study 

 applied to the economic production of animals. 

 Cases of this breeding within the breed were 

 cited, and its application to such results as the 

 English race horses and farm animals men- 

 tioned. These experiments were made prior to 

 Darwin's time, but subsequent to his publica- 

 tions a better understanding of the subject be- 

 gan to prevail, and many of the facts contained 

 in his works were derived from studying this 

 subject. Darwin even joined various pigeon 

 societies, put up his cotes, and became a practical 

 and experimental fancier. The result of all this 

 has been a better knowledge of the laws of 

 heredity and of the causes that promote varia- 

 tion. A science of breeding now underlies the 

 practical art. The gain to science has been cor- 

 respondingly great, and numerous unsolved 

 problems in biological science find here their 

 material for use. Economical and socirfl science 

 also here find a field for experiment and deduc- 

 tion. Science will therefore be the gainer in 

 the future as in the past. 



The following-named papers were then read 

 and discussed before the section : 



" Surface Tension of Water and Evaporation with 

 Experiments " and " Energy as a Factor in Nutrition," 

 by Manly Miles ; " The Utility of Practical Psychol- 

 ogy " and " Geneo-Pathological Chart," by Laura O. 

 Talbott ; " Manual Labor at Agricultural Colleges," 

 by William J. Beal ; " The Maturing Pacific Railroad 

 Debts," by Richard Colburn ; " Relations of Produc- 

 tion and Price of Silver and Gold," by Henry Far- 

 quhar ; and " The Necessity for a Bureau of Record 

 and Reference," by H. F. J. Porter. 



Popular Features of the Proceedings. 



Subsequent to the delivery of the presidential 

 address on the evening of Aug. 17 the usual re- 

 ception was tendered to the members of the as- 

 sociation in the Senate Chamber by the citizens 

 of Madison, and on the evening of Aug. 18 a 

 public lecture complimentary to the citizens was 

 delivered by Prof. Daniel G. Brinton, who spoke 

 on "Early "Men." Saturday, Aug. 19, as usual, 

 was set aside for excursions, and the picturesque 

 dells of Wisconsin River were visited by more 

 than 200 of the attending scientists. On the even- 

 ing of Aug. 21 a reception and lawn fete was 

 given the visitors on the adjoining lawns of 

 President Charles K. Adams, John M. Olin, and 

 George Raymer, from 8 to 11. The scene was 

 made brilliant by an artistic illumination with 

 electric lights. Short trips were made by steam- 

 er on the lake, and residents generally along the 

 Mendota shore illuminated their lawns for the 

 occasion. Besides the foregoing, a reception was 

 given to. the ladies of the association, on Aug. 19, 

 by Mrs. Charles K. Adams. Other excursions of 



