NOVEMBEB 26, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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9:30 Reception of the Academy and guests 



by President and Mrs. Wilson. 



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 



10:00 A.M. Scientific Session. 

 1:00 P.M. Luncheon. 



The program of papers to be presented was as 

 follows : 



" On the Presence of Teeth in Echinoneus Van 

 Phels," A. Agassiz, Cambridge, Mass. 



"The Geology of South Africa," W. B. Scott, 

 Princeton, N. J. 



" Formative Substances in Eggs," E. G. Conk- 

 lin, Princeton, N. J. 



" A Study of Immunity to Self-fertilization in 

 Ciona," T. H. Morgan, Xew York. 



" Meteor Crater, Arizona," D. M. Barringer, 

 Philadelphia (introduced by W. B. Scott). 



" Derivatives of Tantalum," E. F. Smith, Phila- 

 delphia. 



" Some New Methods in Electro-analysis," E. F. 

 Smith, Philadelphia. 



" The Emission of Electricity by Hot Bodies," 

 O. W. Richardson, Princeton, N. .J. (introduced 

 by W. B. Scott). 



" The Physiography of Southeastern Alaska," 

 W. M. Davis, Cambridge, Mass. 



" The Yale Expedition of 1909 to Palestine and 

 Syria," E. Huntington, New Haven, Conn, (intro- 

 duced by W. M. Davis ) . 



"The Early Stages of Acmwa," E. S. Morse, 

 Salem, Mass. 



" The Transmission of Epidemic Poliomyelitis 

 to Monkeys," S. Flexner, New York. 



" The Present Status of the Ether," A. G. Web- 

 ster, Worcester, JIass. 



" Examples of Recent Photographs made at the 

 Yerkes Observatory," E. B. Frost, Madison Bay, 

 Wis. 



" The Development of Olenellus," C. D. Walcott, 

 Washington, D. 0. 



" Report of Investigations on the Correlation 

 of Tertiary and Quaternary Horizons in Europe 

 and North America," H. F. Osborn, New York. 



" The Skull of Tyrannosauru,s," H. F. Osborn, 

 New York. 



"The Fission of Double Stars," H. N. Russell, 

 Princeton, N. J. (introduced by W. B. Scott). 



" The First Movements of the Vertebrate Em- 

 bryo in Relation to the Development of the Ner- 

 vous System," S. Paton. Princeton, N. J. (intro- 

 duced by E. G. Conklin). 



" The Development of Electric Tissue in Teleost 

 Fishes," U. Dahlgren, Princeton, N. J. (introduced 

 bv E. G. Gonklin). 



" The Relative Sizes of Cells and Nuclei," E. G. 

 Conklin, Princeton, N. J. 



"Memoir of Woleott Gibba," F. W. Clarke, 

 Washington, D. C. 



" Biographical Sketch of C. A. Young," E. B. 

 Frost, Madison Bay, Wis. 



"Memoir of W. K. Brooks," E. G. Conklin, 

 Princeton. N. J. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE NEW TORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — SECTION 

 OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCnOLOGY 



A MEETING was held, in conjunction with the 

 American Ethnological Society, on October 25, at 

 the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. 

 Fishberg occupying the chair. 



Dr. Robert H. Lowie, in discussing " The Age- 

 societies of the Plains Indians," distinguished 

 between the genuine feasting age-societies of old, 

 middle-aged and young men found among the 

 Omaha and the ceremonial age-groups of the 

 Arapaho, Gros Ventre, Blackfoot and Village 

 tribes. The latter do not seem to correspond to 

 fundamental age-divisions, so that some other 

 factor of as yet problematic character must be 

 assumed to have entered in their development. 

 The lecturer insisted that these ceremonial organ- 

 izations can not be classified on the basis of single 

 characteristics, even though these involve the 

 ostensible conditions of membership, but that it 

 is necessary to isolate well-marked single features 

 and to study their diffusion and the various com- 

 binations into which they enter. 



!Mr. Leo J. Frachtenberg presented some " Notes 

 on Coos Etlmology," in which he stated that the 

 Coos Indians of northwestern Oregon form an 

 independent linguistic stock. Their language may 

 be subdivided into two distinct dialects, called 

 Ha'nis and Mt'luk. The MI'luk dialect is extinct, 

 while Ha'nis is still spoken by about thirty indi- 

 viduals living between Acme and Florence, in 

 Lane County, Oregon. The long intercourse be- 

 tween the Coos Indians and the white settlers hag 

 effected a total assimilation of the Red Man. 

 To such an extent is this so that the Coos show 

 no traces whatever of the ancient Indian mode of 

 life. There are, however, a few individuals who 

 still remember phases of this life. The informa- 

 tion obtained from these individuals tends to 

 show that the ancient Coos customs and habits 

 varied very little from those prevailing among 

 the other tribes of the Pacific coast. The most 

 important differences may be summed up as fol- 



