December 9, 1921] 



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Secretary: Robert E. Kennedy, assistant secretaiy 

 of the American Eoundrymen 's Association, 

 Urbana, Illinois. 



W. K. Bean, president of the American Foundry- 

 men 's AssiOciation, Naugatuek, Conn. 



Henry B. Hanley, metallurgist and chemist. New 

 London, Conn. 



Jesse L. Jones, metallurgist of the Westinghouse 

 Electric and Manufacturing Co., E. Pittsburgh, 

 Pa. 



Professor Henry Eies, Department of Geology, Cor- 

 nell University, Ithaca, New York. 



Dr. Bradley Stoughton, consulting engineer, New 

 York City. 



Dr. George K. Burgess, chief of the Division of 

 Metallurgy, Bureau of Standards, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The committee has thirty-five members, 

 representing the many interests in the use 

 of molding sand. 



At a meeting of the executive committee on 

 November 26, in the office of Division of En- 

 gineering, Engineering Societies Building, 

 New York City, three subcommittees were 

 appointed to deal (1) with the formulation 

 of standard tests for determining the work- 

 ing properties of molding sand, (2) reclama- 

 tion of molding sands and greater use of old 

 sands and (3) methods of manufacturing 

 synthetic sands. A meeting of the main com- 

 mittee in the Engineering Societies Building, 

 New York, was planned for December 9, to 

 lay out a comprehensive program of research 

 which will include the assigning of the vari- 

 ous problems to appropriate laboratories and 

 industrial plants. Some field work will be 

 necessary in connection with these investiga- 

 tions. 



The cooperation of men having like inter- 

 ests in Canada and England is assured and 

 invitations have been extended to France 

 and Belgium. 



Alfred D. Flinn 



chahtman of the division op engineering, 

 National Eesearch Council 



the bayard dominick marquesan 

 expedition 



The Bayard Dominick Marquesan Expedi- 

 tion for anthropological research has recently 

 returned after fifteen months in Eastern Cen- 



tral Polynesia. The members of the expedition 

 were Dr. E. S. Handy, ethnologist, and Mrs. 

 Handy; and Mr. Ralph Linton, archeologist, 

 members of the staff of the Bernice Pauahi 

 Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and 

 Natural History, of Honolulu, T. H. Nine 

 months were devoted to intensive work in the 

 Marquesan Islands. In addition a considerable 

 amount of ethnological and archeologieal data 

 were obtained in Tahiti. 



The ethnological work of the expedition in 

 the Marquesas was approached with the point 

 of view of reconstructing as near an approach 

 as it is now possible to make to a complete and 

 accurate picture of ancient Marquesan culture. 

 In spite of the fact that the population has 

 been reduced to a very low figure as a result 

 of a hundred years of European contact, and 

 that the ancient culture has been subject to the 

 disintegrating infiuences of missionary teach- 

 ing and commercial exploitation for eighty 

 years, the results of this survey are reported to 

 be most satisfactory and illuminating with re- 

 gard to the relationship of the Marquesan cul- 

 ture to the cultures of other Polynesian and 

 extra-Polynesian peoples. 



The archeologieal survey was accomplished 

 with similar success. Its results will be most 

 illuminating to the body of serious students 

 whose attention is turned on the ethnographic 

 problems of the Pacific. 



For the physical survey, which rounded out 

 the anthropological investigations as they had 

 originally been planned, a series of two hun- 

 dred measurements of full-blooded and mixed 

 Marquesans was obtained, accompanied by ob- 

 servations, hair samples and photographs of 

 every individual. Mr. Louis R. Sullivan, of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, is 

 in charge of the compilation and publication 

 of these anthropometric and somatological 

 data. An early presentation of the results of 

 these researches is planned by the Bishop 

 Museum. 



It is felt that at last the inhabitants of the 

 Marquesas and their culture have been, so to 

 speak, charted on the scientific map of the 

 world. The work of this expedition represents 

 the first attempt on the part of the scientific 



