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196th Meeting. March 19, 1881. 



Vice-President Taylor in the Chair. . 

 Thirty members and visitors present. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. 

 The communication for the evening was by Mr. J. W. Powell, on 



LIMITATIONS TO THE USE OF SOME ANTHROPOLOGIC DATA. 



This paper is published in full in the " Abstract of Transactions 

 of the Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C, for the first 

 year ending January 20, 1880, and the second year ending Jan- 

 uary 18, 1881." 



Remarks upon this communication were made by Messrs. Gill, 

 Harkness, Ward, Newcomb, and Alvord. 



At the conclusion of the discussion the Society adjourned. 



197th Meeting. April 2d, 1881. 



Vice-President Taylor in the Chair. 



Thirty-nine members and visitors present. 



The consideration of the minutes of the last meeting was post- 

 poned, the recorder being absent. 



Dr. Antisell, on behalf of the committee appointed at the last 

 meeting of the Society, reported the following resolution in com- 

 memoration of the late Dr. George A. Otis: 



Resolved, That this Society has heard with profound regret of 

 the untimely death, on the 23d of February last, of Dr. George A. 

 Otis, U. S. Army, one of its original founders. 



Resolved, That while we deplore the loss of so highly valued an 

 associate and friend, there is some compensation to be found in the 

 reflection that his long and incessant suffering has at last terminated, 

 and that it is gratifying to remember that he was not cut off before 

 his services to science, in his chosen field, had received, as well in 

 Europe as in America, the high appreciation which they so richly 

 merited. 



Resolved, That the medical literature, not only of this country 

 but of the world, has sustained by this calamity a loss which can 

 with difficulty be replaced. 



