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fellows: Livingston Farrand, William C. 

 Mills, Charles L. Owen, A. B. Jenks, A. H. 

 Thompson, J. D. McGuire, Frank W. 

 Blaekmar, William Wallace Tooker and 

 AVilliam Henry Goodyear. 



The reports of the committees on the 

 teaching of anthropology in America and 

 on anthropometry, and the resolutions on 

 the American International Archeological 

 Commission, having been adopted by the 

 Council, were printed in the account of the 

 meeting by the general secretary (Science, 

 pp. 45, 46). 



THE COMMITTEE ON THE PROTECTION AND 

 PRESERVATION OP OBJECTS OF ARCH- 

 EOLOGICAL INTEREST REPORTED 

 PROGRESS. 



Thomas AVilson, LL.D., Curator of Pre- 

 historic Anthropology in the Smithsonian 

 Institution, died May 4, 1902, at the age 

 of seventy. He became a member of Sec- 

 tion H of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in 1888, was made 

 a fellow at the thirty-sixth meeting and was 

 elected vice-president of Section H for the 

 forty-eighth meeting, which was held in 

 1899. 



REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE ON THE DEATH OF 

 DR. THOMAS WILSON. 



The committee appointed by Section H 

 of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science to suggest action on 

 the death of one of its esteemed members, 

 has the honor to make the following report : 



Whereas, the death of Dr. Thomas AA^il- 

 son, a former vice-president of the Asso- 

 ciation, has deprived us of one whose pres- 

 ence at our meetings has contributed much 

 to their value, and has deprived prehistoric 

 science of an indefatigable and earnest 

 worker ; in order to express our high appre- 

 ciation of his worth and labor, we recom- 

 mend the following resolutions: 



Resolved, That in the death of Dr. 

 Thomas Wilson the Association has lost a 

 most efficient and industrious worker in the 

 field of prehistoric archeology, the example 

 of whose devotion to science is worthy of 

 emulation. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- 

 tions be sent to his widow and family and 

 that a second copy be placed among the 

 records of the section. 



AVarren K. Moorehead, 

 Stewart Culin, 

 Harlan I. Smith, 

 J. AValter Fewkes. 



The report was adopted by the Section. 



The following resolution was presented 

 by Franz Boas and adopted by the Section : 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this meet- 

 ing that it is desirable to bring about the 

 closest possible correlation between the 

 work of Section H of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science and 

 the American Anthropological Association. 



Retiring Vice-President Fewkes deliver- 

 ed his address, ' Prehistoric Porto Rico,' 

 ]\Ionday afternoon in the Oakland church. 

 It was printed in Science of July 18, 1902. 



Following is a list of the discussions and 

 papers presented. Each title is accompa- 

 nied by an abstract whenever such could be 

 secured from the author. 



TUESDAY, JULY 1. 



Discussion of the relations of Section H 

 to the American Anthropological Associa- 

 tion. 



Tlie Human Effigy Pipe, taken from the 

 Adena Mound, Ross Co., Ohio: by 

 William C. Mills. 



This pipe is one of 'the most wonderful 

 pieces of art taken from the mounds of Ohio. 

 It is tubular in form and represents the 

 human body in the nude state, with the ex- 

 ception of a covering around the loins. On 

 the front of this covering is a serpentine 

 scroll and in the back it is tied and hangs 



