July 11, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



45 



Reports by Alexander Macfarlane on 

 quaternions, and by H. B. Newsom on the 

 theory of collineations to Section A, were 

 ordered printed in full in the proceedings. 

 The following resolutions on the American 

 International Archeological Commission, 

 recommended by Section H, were approved 

 and adopted by the Council and ordered 

 printed : 



Whereas, The Second International American 

 Conference, commonly known as the Pan-Ameri- 

 can Congress, in session duly assembled in the 

 City of Mexico January 29, 1902, adopted a rec- 

 ommendation to the several American nations 

 participating in the Conference, that an ' Ameri- 

 can International Archeological Commission ' be 

 created ; 



Whereas, The recommendation has been trans- 

 mitted by the President of the United States to 

 the Congress (Senate Document No. 330 of the 

 57th Congress, 1st Session), thereby giving the 

 project official status in the United States; and. 



Whereas, The recommendation is in full ac- 

 cord with the spirit and objects of American sci- 

 ence while international agreement in laws rela- 

 ting to antiquities is desirable; therefore, 



Resolved, That the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science heartily concurs in 

 the recommendation of the Second International 

 American Conference. 



Resolved Further, That the secretary of the 

 Association send a copy of this Resolution to the 

 Director of the Bureau of American Republics, 

 as an expression of the judgment of the Asso- 

 ciation. 



Adopted by Section H on this July 2, 1902, 

 and recommended to the council for adoption on 

 behalf of the Association. 



Stewart Culin, 



Chairnxan, 

 Harlan I. Smith, 



Secretary. 



Reports of Standing Committees were 

 presented and ordered printed as below : 



Twentieth Annual Report of the com- 

 mittee on Indexing Chemical Literature 

 (will be printed hereafter). 



report of the committee ON" THE TEACHIXG OF 

 ANTIIROPOLOGT IN AMERICA. 



To the Council of the A. A. A. S.: The Com- 

 mittee on the Teaching of Anthropology in Ameri- 



ca beg to report a continuation of correspondence 

 and conferences in the interests of Anthropolog- 

 ical teaching. Some of the results of the cor- 

 respondence are incorporated in a paper by one 

 of the committee (Dr. MacCurdy) entitled ' The 

 Teaching of Anthropology in the United States ' 

 published in Science, January, 1902. During the 

 year a course of lectures was delivered by one 

 of the Committee (the Chairman) in the Free 

 Museum attached to the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, pursuant to the purposes of the Commit- 

 tee. 



The expenses of the Committee have been in- 

 considerable and no appropriation was asked. It 

 is recommended that the Committee be continued. 

 W J McGee, 

 Feanz Boas, 

 W. H. Holmes. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ANTHROPOMETRY. 



Anthropometric researches under the auspices 

 of this committee have been continued during the 

 }'ear. Professors Cattell and Boas, members of 

 the committee, and Professors Thorndike and Far- 

 rand, fellows of the Association, have during the 

 year made measurements of students entering 

 and graduating from Columbia College, and have 

 made other studies on individual ditferenees. 

 Professor Thorndike has investigated especially 

 the correlation of traits in school children. Mr. 

 Farrington has studied the question as to wheth- 

 er brothers who have attended Columbia Univer- 

 sity are more alike than those who are not broth- 

 ers. Mr. Bair and Dr. Wissler are calculating 

 the results of measurements of school children 

 made by. Professor Boas. Professor Cattell is 

 collecting data on individual differences, in which 

 1,000 students of Columbia University, 1,000 of 

 tlie most eminent men in history and 1,000 scien- 

 tific men of the United States are being consid- 

 ered. 



Progress has been made with the construction 

 of a travelling set of anthropometric Instruments, 

 toward which an appropriation of $50 was made 

 at the Denver meeting of the Association. It is 

 believed that the model of a portable set of in- 

 struments would be of value for work in schools, 

 for the study of primitive races, etc. The pres- 

 ent set is the property of the Association and is 

 to be used in the first instance in making physical 

 and mental measurements of members. Such 

 measurements were begun at the New York meet- 

 ing, but they cannot be continued until a portable 

 set of instruments is available and arrangements 

 are made for assistance in carrying out the mea< 



