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of Natural History for the ample and attractive 

 facilities provided; to the Explorers' Club for the 

 welcome extended to members of the Council, and 

 to Mr. George G. Heye and Professor Saville for a 

 private view of the Heye Museum. 



At the Clevelajid meeting the secretary was in- 

 structed to prepare a list of names of persons emi- 

 nent in anthropology to be submitted with the 

 view of election to honorary membership at the 

 New York meeting of the association. Pursuant 

 to his instructions the secretary submitted a list 

 which was referred to a committee named by Presi- 

 dent Dixon: Boas (chairman), Hrdlicka, Peabody 

 and the secretary, with instructions to recommend 

 five names. The report of this committee was 

 approved and the following honorary members 

 were elected by the council: Professor Leonce 

 Manouvrier, Paris, France; Professor Karl von 

 den Steinen, Berlin, Germany; Dr. Alfred P. 

 Maudstay, London, England; His Excellency W. 

 Eadloff, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Professor Emile 

 Oartailhae, Toulouse, France. 



Dr. Goldenweiser reported for the committee ap- 

 pointed to consider the advisability of devoting 

 one number of the journals (American Anthropol- 

 ogist and Journal of American Folk-Lore) to re- 

 cent progress in the field of American anthropol- 

 ogy in connection with the International Congress 

 of Americanists to be held in Washington, D. C, 

 October 5-10, 1914. The report was accepted and 

 Dr. Goldenweiser was instructed to complete his 

 correspondence with contributors and to send the 

 contributions to the editors for publication. The 

 editor of the Anthropologist was instructed to have 

 extra copies of the number in question printed for 

 free distribution among foreign members of the 

 International Congress of Americanists. The con- 

 tributions already promised are : ' ' Archeology, ' ' 

 W. H. Holmes; "Physical Anthropology," A. 

 Hrdlicka; "Material Culture," Clark Wissler; 

 "Mythology," Franz Boas; "Linguistics," P. E. 

 Goddard ; ' ' Ceremonial Organization, ' ' E. H. 

 Lowie; "Religion," Paul Radin; "Social and Po- 

 litical Organizations, " A. A. Goldenweiser ; ' ' His- 

 torical Relations," J. E. Swanton and E. B. 

 Dixon. 



Dr. Hrdlifika gave a detailed report of the prog- 

 ress made by the local committee in preparation 

 for the forthcoming International Congress of 

 Americanists to be held in Washington, D. C. The 

 American Anthropological Association accepted 

 an invitation to become a member of the congress, 

 to which President Dixon named Franz Boas, of 



Columbia University, and George Grant MacCurdy, 

 of Yale University, as delegates from the as- 

 sociation. 



A letter was read from Professor A. L. Kroeber, 

 who expressed the hope that the association would 

 accept the invitation of Mr. James A. Barr, man- 

 ager of the Bureau of Conventions and Societies of 

 the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to 

 hold a special session in San Francisco during the 

 exposition. Professor Kroeber announced his 

 readiness to do everything in his power to help 

 make such a meeting a success. The invitation 

 was referred to the executive committee with 

 power to act. 



The selection of a place for the next annual 

 meeting of the association was likewise left to the 

 executive committee, which has decided that the 

 meeting shall be held in Philadelphia during the 

 Christmas holidays, in afiiliation with Section H 

 of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. 



The chair appointed a committee on nominations 

 consisting of Boas, Lowie, Swanton, Gordon and 

 MacCurdy, whose report was accepted by the as- 

 sociation, the election of officers resulting as fol- 

 lows: 



President — Eoland B. Dixon, Harvard Univer- 

 sity. 



Vice-president 1914 — George A. Dorsey, Field 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Vice-president 1915 — Alexander P. Chamber- 

 lain, Clark University. 



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

 of California. 



Vice-president 1917 — George B. Gordon, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. 



Secretary — George Grant MacCurdy, Yale Uni- 

 versity. 



Treasurer — B. T. B. Hyde, New York. 



Editor — F. W. Hodge, Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology. 



Associate Editors — John E. Swanton, Robert H. 

 Lowie, and Alexander P. Chamberlain. 



The following is a list of the addresses and 

 papers presented: 



"The Piltdown Skull," by Charles H. Hawes. 



"Ten Days with Dr. Henri Martin at La Quina 

 (Charente), France," by Charles Peabody. 



' ' Paleolithic Art as represented in tlie American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York," by 

 George Grant MacCurdy. 



"The So-called 'Argillites' of the Delaware 

 Valley," by N. H. Winchell. 



