February 28, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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and the tissues of the chin are drawn, giving the 

 beaked look. This characteristic is not well 

 marked on all Jews, being more emphatic on some 

 than on others; it is also to be seen on those who 

 are not Jews, but it is more pronounced on Jews 

 than on other peoples, and that it is a Jewish 

 feature can not be doubted. Having become a 

 recognizable characteristic, it was used in sexual 

 selection. Those who showed it most strongly 

 would be selected in marriage by the most ortho- 

 dox, and would transmit a natural endowment to 

 their oifspring. Those who gave less evidence of 

 it might marry outside of the race. In this way 

 the feature became fixed, and it is as much an 

 inheritance as any other characteristic. The pe- 

 culiar position of the Jew for centuries may 

 account for the origin of the Jewish nose. 



The papers read of which the secretary was 

 unable to obtain abstracts were: 



Abnormal Types of Speech in Noofka (to be pub- 

 lished by the Geological Survey of Canada) : 

 Edward Sapir. 



Paiute and Nahuatl: A Study in TJto-Aztekan 

 (to appear in the Jour, de la Sac. des American- 

 ist es de Paris) : Edward Sapib. 



The Individual Totem among the Interior Salish: 



0. M. BAKBEAtr. 



Some Comparative Aspects of the Wyandot Lan- 

 guage: C. M. Barbeau. 



Magical and Beligious Factors in the Development 

 of the Suman Will: Felix Krueger. 



Fallacious Estimates of Prehistoric Time: G. 

 Frederick Wright. 



The Father and Son Comiat in British Balladry: 

 Phillips Barry. 

 The following papers were read by title: 



Sooial Organisation of the Menominee: Alanson 

 Skinner. 



An Archeological Survey of Neio Jersey: Alan- 

 son Skinner. 



Pigmentation and Longevity: Wm. C. Farabee. 



Numerical Systems of Campa and Pano: Wm. C. 

 Fababee. 



The Japanese New Year: MoCK Joya. 



What is the American View of Totemism: 

 Charles Hill- Tout. 



Preliminary Eeport on Fxcavaiions in Southern 

 France: Charles Peabody. 

 Dr. Peabody preferred to give his time to the 



reading of Dr. Lomax's presidential address. 

 George Grant MacCdrdy, 



Secretary 

 Yale "University 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE anthropological SOCIETY OP WASHINGTON 



A SPECIAL meeting of the Anthropological So- 

 ciety of Washington was held January 7, 1913, in 

 room 43 of the new building of the National 

 Museum, the president, Mr. George R. Stetson, 

 " being in the chair. 



Mr. E. Dana Durand, director of the Census, 

 read an important paper on ' ' Eace Statistics of 

 the Last Census," replete with interesting facts. 

 Mr. Dana said, inter alia, that during the decade 

 1900-10 the white population of the United States 

 increased about 22 per cent, and the negro about 

 11 per cent. This difference is partly due, how- 

 ever, to the direct or indirect effect of immigra- 

 tion of whites, in the absence of which the whites 

 would have increased about 14 per cent. The 

 Indians increased about 12 per cent., the Chinese 

 decreased in number, while the Japanese nearly 

 trebled. The whites have at practically every 

 census shown a more rapid rate of increase than 

 the negroes, and there is reason to believe that the 

 difference between the two races in rate of in- 

 crease from 1890 to 1900 was greater than ap- 

 peared from the census returns, on account of a 

 probable underenumeration of the negroes in 1890. 

 The census of 1910 showed that about 21 per cent. 

 of the negroes are mulattoes, as compared with 

 about 12 per cent, in 1870, the last preceding 

 census at which the question regarding blood mix- 

 ture was asked in comparable form. 



There has been no very great migration of 

 negroes out of the south, nearly nine tenths of the 

 total number being still found in that section. 

 The number living outside the south increased 

 167,000 between 1900 and 1910, while the number 

 residing in the south increased over 800,000. The 

 rate of natural increase — that is, by excess of 

 birth over deaths — of the white population of the 

 south, however, is much higher than that of the 

 negroes, being higher also than that of the whites 

 in the north. 



Among the native white population whose 

 parents were born in this country, there were, in 

 1910, 104 males to each 100 females, as compared 

 with only 98.9 in the case of the negroes. Among 

 all classes of the population more boy babies than 

 girl babies are born, but equality tends to be 

 brought about by a higher death rate among the 

 males. The difference in sex distribution between 

 the whites and the negroes is probably attrib- 

 utable, in part at least, to more favorable health 

 conditions among the whites. 



