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rock older tlian Permian. Hitchcock in 

 Ws first wfitings on this region called the for- 

 mation Huronian, but 30 years later referred 

 it to the Cambrian or Ordovician. In his later 

 opinion, however, he was not sure.^ Further 

 work will be necessary on this most difficult 

 locality to place all the formations in their 

 proper stratigrapMcal positions. 



Egbert W. Sayles 

 Harvard University 



TEE PHILAVELPSIA MEETING OF TEE 



AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



ASSOCIATION 



The annual meeting of the American Anthropo- 

 logical Association was held at the University Mu- 

 seum, Philadelphia, December 28-31, 1914, in 

 affiliation with the American Folk-Lore Society 

 and Section H of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. The attendance was 

 Satisfactory, and a rather extensive program 

 was presented. It was decided to hold a' special 

 session in San Francisco, August 2-7, and to em- 

 power Professor A. L. Kroeber, of the University 

 of California, to make all arrangements relating 

 to the meeting. A decision as to the place of the 

 next annual meeting was referred to the executive 

 committee. The secretary of the Committee on 

 Phonetics, Dr. E. Sapir, read the committee's re- 

 port in abstract, and the members were instructed 

 to publish the entire report in whatever form 

 seemed most appropriate. 



The following officers for 1915 were elected by 

 acclamation : 



President: F. W. Hodge, Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. 



Vice-president, 1915: Clark Wissler, American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Vice-president, 1916: A. L. Kroeber, University 

 of California. 



Vice-president, 1917: George B. G-ordon, {Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. 



Vice-president, 1918: Berthold Laufer, Field 

 Museum, Chicago. 



Secretary: George Grant MaeCurdy, Yale Uni- 

 versity. 



Treasurer: B. T. B. Hyde, New York City. 



Editor: Pliny E. Goddard, American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Associate Editors: J. E. Swanton, E. H. Lowie. 



Executive Committee: A. M. Tozzer, B. Sapir, 

 W. J. Fewkes. 



2 (1) Hitchcock, C. H., "Geology of New Hamp- 

 shire," Vol. 2, p. 50, 1877, and (2) "Geology of 

 Littleton, N. H.," reprint from the "History of 

 Littleton," pp. 11 and 29, 1905. 



Council : F. W. Putnam, F. Boas, W. H. Holmes, 

 W. J. Fewkes, E. B. Dixon, F. W. Hodge, C. Wiss- 

 ler, A. L. Kroeber, G. B. Gordon, B. Laufer, G. 

 G. MaeCurdy, B. T. B. Hyde (ex-officio) ; A. E. 

 Jenks, S. A. Barrett, W. Hough, A. Hrdlieka, A. 

 M. Tozzer, F. G. Speck, A. A. Goldenweiser, E. A. 

 Hooton, A. V. Kidder, F. C. Cole (1915); Byron 

 Cummings, G. H. Pepper, W. C. Farabee, J. E. 

 Swanton, G. G. Heye, H. J. Spinden, T. T. Water- 

 man, C. M. Barbeau, W. D. Wallis, A. B. Lewis, 

 Stansbury Hagar (1916) ; W. C. Mills, H. Mont- 

 gomery, C. B. Moore, W. K. Moorehead, C. Pea- 

 body, C. C. Willoughby, T. Michelson, A. B. 

 Skinner, M. H. Saville (1917) ; A. C. Fletcher, C. 

 P. Bowditch, S. Culin, E. H. Lowie, C. H. Hawes, 

 E. Sapir, N. C. Nelson, H. Bing-ham, J. A. Mason, 

 G. A. Dorsey, E. W. GifEord (1918). 



The sectional committee of Section H recom- 

 mended the names of twenty-eight members for 

 fellowship, and the council of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science duly 

 elected them. The recommendation of the sec- 

 tional committee, that Professor George M. Strat- 

 ton, of the University of California, be elected 

 vice-president of the section for the ensuing year, 

 was likewise approved by the general committee. 

 Professor L. Witmer was elected a member of the 

 council; Dr. P. E. Goddard a member of the gen- 

 eral committee, and Professor F. Boas a member 

 of the sectional committee to serve five years. 



The American Folk-Lore Society reelected Dr. 

 P. E. Goddard president and Professor C. Pea- 

 body secretary, and elected A. B. Skinner assist- 

 ant secretary. 



The address of the retiring vice-president of 

 Section H, Professor Pillsbury, on ' ' The Function 

 and Test of Definition and Method in Psychol- 

 ogy" will be published in Science; Dr. Goddard 's 

 presidential address before the Folk-Lore Society 

 on "The Eolation of Folk-Lore to Anthropology" 

 will appear in The Journal of American FolTc- 

 Lore. 



A number of the papers presented dealt with 

 problems of general interest. Geheimrat Pro- 

 fessor Felix von Luschan, who appeared as a 

 guest of the Association, delivered a lecture on 

 " Convergency. " He dwelt on the importance of 

 this originally biological concept in the field of 

 anthropology, where both somatological and cul- 

 tural resemblances can often be ranged in this 

 category rather than under the caption of inde- 

 pendent development. Dr. A. B. Lewis, in his 

 paper on "Some Native Industries from New 

 Guinea," passed from a descriptive account to 

 significant remarks on the process of diffusion, as 

 indicated by Oceanian data. The distribution of 

 certain techniques in this area points not so much 



