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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXIX. No. 750 



" The Valuation of Fuel according to Analysis," 

 by Dr. William Blum. 



" Philippine Birds," by Chaplain Joseph Cle- 

 mens, Ft. Douglas. 



At the business session, the following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: 



President — Dr. W. C. Ebaugh, University of 

 Utah. 



First rice-President — Dr. E. D. Ball, Utah 

 Experiment Station. 



Second Vice-president — W. D. Neal, Weber 

 Stake Academy. 



Secretary — ^A. O. Garrett, Salt Lake High 

 School. 



Treasurer — ^Dr. Philena Fletcher Homer, Brig- 

 ham Young University. 



Councillors — Professor J. L. Gibson, University 

 of Utah, Dr. S. H. Goodwin, Proctor Academy; 

 and Professor W. W. Henderson, Brigham Young 

 College. 



A. 0. Garbett, 



Secretary 



THE ANTHBOPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASIIINOTON 



The 433d regular meeting of the society was 

 held April 20, 1909, President Hough in the chair. 



The first part of the evening was devoted to a 

 paper on " The Peoples of the Philippines," by 

 Dr. Daniel Folkmar, formerly lieutenant-governor 

 of the province of Bontoc, and consisted prin- 

 cipally in the presentation of the results of an- 

 thropometric studies of 800 to 1,000 Filipinos in 

 the prison of Bilibid. While the Negritos and 

 other interior tribes were touched upon. Dr. Folk- 

 mar confined himself in the main to the Moros and 

 the eight principal Christian peoples — theTagalogs, 

 Bisayas, Pampangas, Ilooanos, Pangasinans, Cag- 

 ayans, Zambals and Bicols. The investigations 

 seemed to show a division of the Filipinos into two 

 principal types, exclusive of the Negritos, a south- 

 ern, or perhaps we should rather say coastal, and 

 a northern or interior type, the Moros, curiously 

 enough, occupying an exact intermediate position. 

 At the same time Dr. Folkmar expressed greater 

 confidence in language as a means of classification 

 in the Philippine group than physical character- 

 istics. He considered that, with the exception of 

 the Negritos, all Philippine tribes were affiliated 

 with the Malayan race and constituted part of the 

 Malay problem. In discussing this paper Dr. Boas 

 stated that the anthropological problems of south- 

 eastern Asia were concerned with three races, the 

 IMalayan, the Negrito, and a short but light people 

 represented by the Veddahs of Ceylon. 



The society then listened to reports of its offi- 

 cers for the past year, and proceeded to the elec- 

 tion of officers for 1909 to 1910, which resulted 

 as follows: 



President — J. Walter Fewkes. 



Vice-president — James Mooney. 



Secretary — John R. Swanton. 



Treasurer — George C. Maynard. 



Additional Members of the Board of Managers 

 — I. M. Casanowicz, J. N. B. Hewitt, F. W. Hodge, 

 C. H. Robinson, Sirs. M. P. Seaman. 



John R. Swanton, 

 Secretary 



THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. NEW YORK 

 SECTION 



The seventh regular meeting of the session of 

 1908-9 was held at the Chemists' Club on April 9. 



The following papers were presented: 



" The Municipal Explosives Commission of New 

 York," by A. A. Breneman. 



" Note on the Nitration of Triphenylmethane," 

 by R. Schwartz. 



" The Volumetric Determination of Cerium," by 

 F. J. Metzger. 



" Does Thorium exist as Silicate in Monazite ? " 

 by 0. Kress and F. J. Metzger. 



" The Reversal of the Photographic Imag;e," by 

 Wilder D. Bancroft. 



Owing to the interference of the dates of the 

 American Electrochemical Society meeting and 

 the Congress of Applied Chemistry, there will be 

 but one more meeting this season, to be held 

 May 14. C. M. Joyce, 



Secretary 



THE TOEREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



The meeting of April 13 was held at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History at 8:30 P.M. 

 and was called to order by Mr. Charles Louis 

 Pollard, who presided in the absence of the presi- 

 dent and both vice-presidents. 



Mr. Norman Taylor, chairman of the field com- 

 mittee, asked that authority be given him to issue 

 a circular letter requesting the members to vote 

 relative to the continuance of the field meetings. 

 The club voted that this authority be given. 



The announced paper of the evening on " Bot- 

 anizing on the Headwaters of the Saskatchewan 

 and Athabasca Rivers" was then presented by 

 Mr. Stewardson Brown. The lecture was illus- 

 trated by lantern slides. 



Percy Wilson, 

 Secretary 



