August 22, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



309 



Phase Rule,' by J. E. Trevor. 'Limitations of 

 the Mass Law,' by Wilder D. Bancroft. 



April. 'Molecular Attraction,' by J. E. 

 Mills. The presentation of evidence to prove 

 that molecular attraction, like gravitation, 

 varies inversely as the square of the distance 

 apart of the molecules, that it is only slightly 

 affected by changes in temperature, and that 

 it depends primarily upon the chemical con- 

 stitution of the molecule and not upon its 

 mass. ' Studies in Vapor Composition, II.,' by 

 H. E. Carveth. 'On the Stability of the 

 Equilibrium of Univariant Systems,' by Paul 

 Saurel. 'On the Fundamental Equations of 

 the Multiple Point,' by Paul Saurel. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 



As announced in Science for June 27, and 

 as briefly noted in the report of the Secretary 

 of Section H of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science (this volume, 

 p. 201), an American Anthropological Asso- 

 ciation was formally established on June 30. 

 The founding meeting was held in Oakland 

 Church, Pittsburgh, under the Chairmanship 

 of Stewart Culin, Vice-president of Section 

 H of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. After the adoption of 

 a constitution the following executive officers 

 were elected: 



President, W J McGee; Vice-President for four 

 years, F. W. Putnam; Vice-President for three 

 years, Franz Boas; Vice-President for two years, 

 W. H. Holmes; Vice-President for one year, J. W. 

 Powell; Secretary, George A. Dorsey; Treasurer, 

 Roland B. Dixon; Editor, F. W. Hodge. 



The plan of the organization providing for 

 a Council large enough to include the leading 

 workers in American anthropology, the follow- 

 ing persons, all of whom except two (who 

 chanced to be abroad) had indorsed the objects 

 of the Association, were elected Councilors: 

 Frank Baker, Henry P. Bowditch, A. F. 

 Chamberlain, Stewart Culin, Livingston Far- 

 rand, J. Walter Fewkes, Alice C. Fletcher, J. 

 N. B. Hewitt, Walter Hough, Ales Hrdlicka, 

 A. L. Kroeber, Geoi'ge Grant MacCurdy, O. T. 

 Mason, Washington Matthews, J. D. McGuire, 

 James Mooney, W. W. Newell, Frank Russell, 



M. H. Saville, Harlan I. Smith, Frederick 

 Starr, John R. Swanton, Cyrus Thomas, and 

 E. S. Wood. 



The Association arranged to hold the next 

 regular meeting at Washington, in connection 

 with the meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science during Con- 

 vocation Week, 1902-03. 



A session for the representation of scientific 

 papers was held jointly with Section H, as 

 already reported in Science. 



The following preamble and resolutions 

 were adopted: 



" Whereas, The Second International 

 American Conference, commonly known as the 

 Pan American Congress, in session duly as- 

 sembled in the City of Mexico, January 29, 

 1902, adopted a recommendation to the seve- 

 ral American nations participating in the Con- 

 ference , that an ' American International 

 Archaeological Commission ' be created, to 

 promote archeological research, to aid in the 

 preservation of antiquities, and to endeavor 

 to establish an American International Mu- 

 seum; and 



Whereas, The recommendation is in full 

 accord with the spirit and objects of American 

 science; therefore 



" Resolved, That the American Anthropolog- 

 ical Association heartily concurs in the rec- 

 ommendation of the Second International 

 American Conference. 



"Resolved further. That the Secretary of 

 the Association send a copy of these Resolu- 

 tions to the Director of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Republics as an expression of the judg- 

 ment of the Association." 



Undoubtedly the founding of the new as- 

 sociation will meet a need long felt by the 

 anthropologists of the United States; it was 

 indeed the consummation of a movement 

 started in 1896 when the Anthropological Sec- 

 tion of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science began holding winter 

 meetings. The action at Pittsburgh was es- 

 pecially notable for the unanimity shown by 

 the representatives of all sections of the coun- 

 try. Most of the leading anthropologists of 

 America were present in person; and it may 

 be said that all were in some way represented. 



