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The passing of the Indian, by James Mooney. 



The place of archaeology in human history, by W. H. Holmes. 



The Puehlo ctUture and its relationships , by J. Walter Fewkes. 



The rise and fall of the Maya civilization in the light of the monuments 



and the native chronicles, by Sylvanus Griswold Morley. 

 The United States census of immigrant stocks, by Daniel Folkmar. 

 Tribes of the Pacific coast of North America, by A. L. Kroeber. 

 Variaciones del lambda en los antiguos crdneos peruunos, by Carlos Morales 



Macedo. 

 What the United States has done for anthropology , by F. W. Hodge. 



SECTION II. 



ASTRONOMY, METEOROLOGY, AND SEISMOLOGY. 



Address before the section by the Chairman, Robert S. Woodward. 



SUBSECTION 1. 



astronomy and geodesy. 



Algunos fendmenos de criptocroismo en luz solar ultra-violeta e infra-roja, by 



Gustavo Michaud and J. Fidel Tristdn. 

 Astronomical Work in South America, by S. I. Bailey. 

 Contribufdo para o estudo da or agraphia brasilica, by Gastao Ruch Stur- 



zenecker. 

 Costs of primary triangulation, including determinations of latitude, longi- 

 tude, and azimuth, by William Bowie. 

 Costs of relative gravity determinations by aid of half-second pendulums, by 



William Bowie. 

 Determination of the earth's shape by simultaneous astronomical observations 



in North and South America, by Ernest Brown. 

 Desirability and practicability of covering the South, Central, and North 



America with a network of precise triangulation, by R. S. Woodward. 

 Desirability and practicability of extending a gravimetric survey over the 



South, Central, and North American areas, by R. S. Woodward. 

 Investigation of the pivots of the i<)0 m. m. meridian circle of the Argentine 



National Observatory at Cordoba, by M. L. Zimmer. 

 Ligeros apuntes de la forma en que se hallan establecidos los servicios que 



tiene a su cargo el Observatorio Nacional de la Repiiblica de Cuba, by 



Luis G. y Carbonell. 



