SECTION J HUMAN ANATOMY 



(Hall 2, September 22, 3 p. m.} 



CHAIRMAN: PROFESSOR GEORGE A. PIERSOL, University of Pennsylvania. 

 SPEAKERS: PROFESSOR WILHELM WALDEYER, University of Berlin. 



PROFESSOR H. H. DONALDSON, University of Chicago. 

 SECRETARY: DR. R. J. TERRY, Washington University. 



THE Chairman of the Section of Human Anatomy was Professor 

 George A. Piersol, of the University of Pennsylvania, who opened 

 the meeting by remarking: 



" Those of us who have listened to the general addresses delivered 

 during the earlier sessions of the work must have been impressed 

 with the breadth and comprehensiveness of the acknowledged pur- 

 poses of this Congress. These purposes have been not only to bring 

 into touch the widely diverse divisions of science, but also to afford 

 opportunities for exchange of thought between those concerned with 

 problems more or less akin. For, with the ever-increasing mass of 

 details that each year adds in all branches of knowledge, it becomes 

 less and less probable that the single mind can master the minutiae 

 of more than a limited domain. 



"In recognition of the inevitable specialization that the develop- 

 ment of science has brought, have been arranged the hundred and 

 more sections of which our own that of Human Anatomy is one. 



" Human anatomy represents one of the oldest biological specialties, 

 for what more natural than that man's complex organism should have 

 early attracted searching inquiry? But specialization begets narrow- 

 ness, and this, coupled with the potent influence of the long prevail- 

 ing views regarding man's assumed exceptional origin and place in 

 nature, did much to retard the establishment of human anatomy 

 upon the broad basis that it to-day enjoys. 



The too often well-founded charges formerly made by our bro- 

 thers, the zoologists and comparative anatomists, that the human 

 anatomist, ignoring morphological significance, failed to obtain a 

 true perspective in his exclusive studies of man, are, happily, rap- 

 idly losing force, as on all sides has arisen a keen appreciation of the 

 necessity and value of regarding man as a member of the great zoo- 

 logical family. 



" Who shall estimate the stimulating influence of the broad-gauged 

 men who enjoyed the golden age of opportunity during the last 

 century and added so much of epoch-making significance? Among 



