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[N. S. Vol. XSXVII. No. 945 



' ' Standardization in Agricultural Engineering ' ' 

 by J. B. Davidson, of Iowa State College. This 

 subject was continued by ' ' Standards in Agricul- 

 tural Machinery," by J. A. King, of Sears, 

 Eoebuck and Company. W. J. Brandon, of the 

 Avery Company, in his paper, ' ' Standards in Gas 

 Tractor Construction, ' ' took up the question of 

 standardization as applied to the gas tractor 

 industry. 



Saturday was set aside for papers along the 

 teaching phase of the work. A paper by Daniels 

 Scoates, of the Mississippi Agricultural College, 

 on ' ' Laboratory Exercises in Farm Machinery, ' ' 

 brought out the fact that the subject naturally 

 divides into farm mechanics, farm motors and 

 farm machinery. ' ' The Design of an Agricultural 

 Engineering Building, ' ' by H. C. Pamsower, took 

 up the design of a proposed building for the 

 Ohio State University. The plans as shown were 

 discussed by E. A. White, of the University of 

 Illinois, and J. L. Mowry, of the University of 

 Wisconsin. 



The committee on the proposed Bureau of Agri- 

 cultural Engineering reported through J. B. 

 Davidson that the society should lend all possible 

 aid towards securing the passage of the Eainey 

 bill in its present form, providing the creation 

 of a Bureau of Farm Power, inasmuch as parts 

 of the work proposed to be included in the wider 

 plan is already partly taken care of under dif- 

 ferent bureaus and there would be great opposi- 

 tion towards making the necessary reorganizations. 



Extensive changes were authorized in the con- 

 stitution of the society, especially as to classes of 

 members, qualifications of members, methods of 

 electing members, and in dues. The intention is 

 to make the requirements for active membership 

 more rigid, but to provide a wider range of mem- 

 bership through associates, juniors and affiliates. 

 Originally composed of college men engaged in 

 the teaching of agricultural engineering subjects, 

 the society has been broadened to include manu- 

 facturers, technical men, etc. The increase in 

 membership has been rapid, that of the present 

 year being between forty and fifty per cent.; 

 while under the new provisions of the constitution, 

 and due to the increased interest aroused by the 

 standardization and tractor contest problems, a 

 still greater increase is looked for in the present 

 year. 



The following officers were elected for the en- 

 suing year: 



President — L. W. Chase, Lincoln, Neb. 



First Vice-president — E. A. Eumely, La Porte, 

 Ind. 



Second Vice-president — J. A. King, Chicago, 111. 

 Secretary — I. W. Dickerson, Urbana, 111. 

 Treasurer — J. L. Mowry, St. Paul, Minn. 

 Cmmcilor — J. B. Davidson, Ames, la. 



I. W. Dickerson, 



Secretary 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 464th regular meeting of the society was 

 held at 4:30 p.m., December 17, 1912, in Room 43 

 of the New National Museum, the president, Mr. 

 Stetson, in the chair. 



Professor C. V. Piper read a paper on the 

 Filipinos and the problem of their government, 

 beginning by a general resume of the insular con- 

 ditions and various peoples dwelling there, of 

 whom he said the Negritoes, now found mainly in 

 four islands but once in nearly all, are generally 

 regarded as the original inhabitants, the Igorrotes 

 and other wild tribes being the next to arrive, the 

 Filipinos next, perhaps about a.d. .500, and the 

 Moros last, not long before the time of the Spanish 

 occupation. At some length he described the Fili- 

 pino characteristics, distinguishing between the 

 small educated minority and the majority of igno- 

 rant laborers. His conclusion was that immediate 

 independence would be injurious, but that our gov- 

 ernment should establish some limit in the future 

 defined by conditions of education of the majority 

 of the race. The most remarkable thing we are 

 doing there, he said, is the attempt, for the first 

 time in history, to educate an inferior people en 

 ma^e. The Asiatic European colonies have little 

 faith in its success, but are influenced by it and 

 our general policy. 



Dr. Riley B. Moore read a paper on his observa- 

 tions in St. Lawrence Island, one hundred by 

 thirty miles of treeless swamp and tundra, inhab- 

 ited by some two hundred and fifty people, the 

 debris of five diiferent tribes in the Bering Sea. 

 Some of these resemble Sioux Indians: others are 

 typical Mongolians, with all intervening kinds. In 

 summer they have a profusion of birds and fish 

 to feed on; but in other seasons their food is 

 whale-meat, seal-meat and walrus-meat. They live 

 with little ventilation and many skin diseases. 

 Tuberculosis also is very common. The death rate 

 has long exceeded the birth rate. 



W. H. Babcock 

 Secretary 



