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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1062 



President Marcus E. Jones occupied the chair at 

 all the sessions. 



Professor Byron Cummings, U. U., Dr. W. E. 

 Carroll, U. A. C. and Dr. Helen I. Mattill, U. V., 

 were elected to fellowships, and Isaac Diehl (Eob- 

 inson, Utah), H. J. Maughan, U. A. C, Miss Mary 

 Morehead, U. TJ., James E. Smith (Heber City), 

 and Chas. E. Mau, B. Y. U., to membership in the 

 academy. 



The officers for the ensuing year are as follows : 



President — Dr. Harvey Fletcher, B. Y. U., Provo. 



First Vice-president — Dr. IVank Harris, U. A. C, 

 Logan. 



Second Vice-president — Dr. L. L. Daines, B. Y. 

 IT., Logan. 



Permanent Secretary-treasurer — A. O. Garrett, 

 Salt Lake High School. 



Coundllors — Professor J. L. Gibson, U. IT., W. 

 D. Neal, Salt Lake City, Dr. W. E. Carroll, IT. A. 

 C, Logan. 



A committee was appointed to make arrange- 

 ments for publication of the proceedings of the 



The following papers and lectures were pre- 

 sented : 



"The Eights and Duties of the Scientist," by 

 Professor Marcus E. Jones. 



' ' The Textile Fabrics of the ClifE Dwellers, ' ' by 

 Professor Byron Cummings, IT. IT. (Illustrated by 

 numerous specimens taken from clifE dwellings.) 



"Controlling Grasshoppers," by Dr. E. D. Ball, 

 U. A. C. 



"Effect of Soil Alkali on Plant Growth," by 

 Dr. Frank Harris, IT. A. C. 



"Some Unique Eusts, " by A. O. Garrett, Salt 

 Lake High School. 



"Effect of the Amount of Protein Consumed 

 upon the Digestion and Protein Metabolism in 

 Lambs and upon the Composition of their Flesh 

 and Blood," by Dr. W. E. Carroll, U. A. C. 



"A Determination of Avogadro's Constant N," 

 by Dr. Harvey Fletcher, B. Y. U. 



"The Voice Tonascope, " by Dr. Franklin 0. 

 Smith, U. U. 



"The Origin of Higher Orders of Difference 

 Tones: Experimental," by Dr. Joseph Peterson, 

 U. U. 



"The Hot Air Furnace — A Study of Combus- 

 tion," by Dr. W. C. Ebaugh, U. U. 



"Color Photography," by Dr. Chas. T. Vorhies, 

 U. U., and Professor Marcus E. Jones. (Illus- 

 trated by lantern projections of numerous color 

 photographs taken independently by Dr. Vorhies 



and Professor Jones in Big Cottonwood Canyon 

 and other parts of Utah.) A. O. Gaerett, 



Secretary 



THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



At the 482d meeting of the society, held Feb- 

 ruary 2, 1915, Dr. C. L. G. Anderson read an obit- 

 uary on Dr. A. F. A. King, who died in Washing- 

 ton, December 13, 1914. Born in England in 1841 

 and coming to Virginia in boyhood, he graduated 

 in medicine, both at Washington and at Philadel- 

 phia. Soon after the Civil War he served as sur- 

 geon at the Lincoln Hospital. From 1870 until 

 his death he held medical chairs in Washington and 

 the University of Vermont and made many contri- 

 butions to medical and scientific literature. Among 

 his anthropological papers was one on "The Evo- 

 lution of Marriage Ceremony and its Import." 



At the 483d meeting of the society, held Feb- 

 ruary 16, 1915, a paper was read by Mr. William 

 H. Babcock on "The Eaees of Britain." Three 

 native languages have been spoken in parts of 

 Great Britain since the sixth century. They rep- 

 resent three waves of invasion by blond peoples. 

 The dark admixture in Britain comes from an ear- 

 lier population, a fairly advanced neolithic race, 

 probably from southern Europe, which perhaps 

 had absorbed paleolithic remnants found in the 

 island. Eeports were made on several recent sci- 

 entific trips. Professor W. H. Holmes and Dr. 

 Ales HrdliCka installed exhibits in Indian ethnol- 

 ogy and physical anthropology for the Panama- 

 California Exposition. These are new and very 

 important and will form parts of permanent mu- 

 seums. Dr. J. W. Fewkes proved prehistoric cul- 

 tural interchanges between Mexico and our south- 

 west in the ruins of the valleys of the Santa Cruz 

 in Arizona and of the Mimbres in New Mexico. 

 The former are of the Casa Grande type. More than 

 800 specimens were brought back, including 250 

 of painted pottery. Dr. Truman Michelson found 

 scarcely a dozen of the 600 Stoekbridges now in 

 Wisconsin who remember a few Stoekbridge words. 

 The language was definitely placed in the Pequot- 

 Mohegan and Natiek division of central Algon- 

 quian dialects, although related to the Delaware- 

 Munsee. Among the Brothertowns near Lake 

 Winnebago, not one was found who remembered 

 Brothertown words. Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt found on 

 his trip to Canada only one survivor who remem- 

 bered anything of the Nanticoke dialect. He also 

 studied the place of song in the ceremonial of an 

 Iroquois lodge. Daniel Folkmar, 



Secretary 



