TRANSACTIONS. 



First Regular Meeting, March 4, 1879. 



Mr. Frank H. Cushing read a paper entitled Relic Hunting. 1 

 Mr. P. W. Norris read a paper entitled Some Modes of Indian 

 Burial. 2 



Second Regular Meeting, March 18, 1879. 



Mr. G. K. Gilbert read a paper entitled Some Indian Picto- 

 graphs. 2 • 



Prof. Otis T. Mason made some Observations on Aztec and 

 Guatemalan Antiquities. 3 



Third Regular Meeting, April 1, 1879. 



Mr. Frank H. Cushing read a paper entitled Arrow-Head 

 Making.* 



Mr. G. K. Gilbert concluded his paper on Indian Pictographs. 2 



Fourth Regular Meeting, April 16, 1879. 



Dr. Swan M. Burnett read a paper entitled Color-Blindness as 

 Affected by Race. 5 



1 "Abstract of Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, 

 D. C, with the Annual Address of the President, for the First Year ending January 

 20, 1880, and for the Second Year ending January 18, 1881. Prepared by J. W. 

 Powell." Washington, 1881. P. 3. 



2 Loc. cit., p. 4. * Loc. cit., p. 6. * Loc. cit., p. 7. 



5 Loc. cit. p. 7: Cf. "Color-Blindness" in "National Medical Review," April, 

 1879, vol. T, pp. 191-198; also " Results of an examination of the Color-Sense of 

 3,040 children in the public schools of the District of Columbia," in "Archives of 

 Ophthalmology," New York, vol. VIII, pp. 191-199; also reprint. Translated 

 into the"Archiv fur Augenheilkunde " Bd. IX, S. 146-148, and Separat-Abdruck. 



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