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of new material awaits the advent of the 

 archeologist and etlmologist in these 

 islands. 



It is reported that the terrible volcanic 

 ernptions on the island of St. Vincent 

 have blotted out the last remnant of the 

 Caribs, but while local settlements may 

 have been destroyed, the race is not yet 

 extinct on the Lesser Antilles, and is well 

 represented at various points in South and 

 Central America, survivors offering many 

 and instructive results awaiting our inves- 

 tigation. There remain also the kindred 

 people in Guiana and Brazil, to a knowledge 

 of whose life and customs Im Thurm, Bhr- 

 enrech and von den Steinen have added so 

 much, and the relatives of the Caribs and 

 Arawak scattered among the numberless 

 tribes of the Oronoco valley, the ten-a in- 

 cognita of American ethnology. 



,It is from a view of this kind over a 

 special field that we get some idea of what 

 there is for the anthropologist to do in the 

 future, and the new problems awaiting 

 solution. I have called your attention 

 to only one of many in the science of 

 man. There are more of equal or greater 

 importance awaiting solution, which of late 

 years especially claim the attention and 

 study of American anthropologists. The 

 unknown anthropological material opened 

 to us by territorial growth is vast, and it is 

 natural that when our anthropologists sur- 

 vey this great unknown awaiting research 

 they should be serenely conscious of the 

 future of our science. We have indeed 

 every reason to be proud of the past 

 achievements of American anthropology, 

 in which this section has played a most 

 creditable part, but the work before us is 

 destined to yield still greater results, shed- 

 ding a still brighter luster on American 

 science. 



J. Walter Fewkes. 



REMARKS OF THE RETIRING PRESIDENT 

 AND OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT* 



In introducing the president of the As- 

 sociation, Dr. Minot, the retiring president 

 said: 



My duty is very brief. I come here as 

 the retiring officer of the Association to 

 have, as the last act of my administration, 

 the pleasant duty of handing over the re- 

 sponsibilities to one whom we all hold in 

 the highest respect; on* who stands for a 

 very lofty ideal of scientific research; one 

 who has attained, what many scientific 

 men fail to attain, a reputation which ex- 

 tends far beyond the realms of science, 

 practically speaking, for to him was ac- 

 corded the privilege of discovering one of 

 those features of the heavens which appeal 

 to the imagination, the satellites of Mars. 

 To the popular mind perhaps this great 

 discovery stands as the most prominent ser- 

 vice of my successor. I speak, not for my- 

 self, but as the mouthpiece of competent 

 astronomers who have told me that this 

 discovery, great as it is, represents only a 

 small part, and not perhaps the greatest 

 part, of the services which Professor Hall 

 has rendered to astronomical science. This 

 Association is indebted to him personally 

 for many years of faithful service, of great 

 helpfulness, and I esteem it the greatest 

 possible honor that after having been my- 

 self president of this Association, I should 

 have the pleasure of turning over the du- 

 ties of the office to Professor Hall. 



In replying to the speeches of Dr. Hol- 

 land and other representatives of the local 

 committee, President Hall said : 



The American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science comes to hold its 

 summer meeting in your city. It is for- 

 tunate for us to meet in the city of Pitts- 

 burgh, famous for its wonderful produc- 

 tion of iron and steel, materials which lie 



* Reports received too late for insertion in the 

 last issue of Science. 



