Dkokmber 5, 1902.] 



SCIENCE, 



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shall, and indicating the work accomplished 

 among the Pueblos and the western In- 

 dians, stated that, at the present time, 

 anthropology occupied about half the mu- 

 seum. Professor Starr recounted the share 

 of the Davenport Academy in the archeo- 

 logical investigations of the West and in- 

 dicated some of the results accomplished. 

 The fix'st formal paper read, that of Dr. 

 Holland, on 'The Petroglyphs of Smiths 

 Ferry' (rock-carvings of no extraordinary 

 character), elicited a discussion on the 

 meaning of such 'writings,' in which Mr. 

 Metz, Dr. Max Uhle, Dr. Franz Boas, J. L. 

 van Panhuys, R. Kronau, Dr. Ambrosetti 

 and Professor Putnam took part. For Dr. 

 Holland these pictographs Avere the product 

 of the lazy pastime of fishers and hunters. 

 Mr. van Panhuys saw more than this in 

 those of Guiana; Dr. Uhle and Dr. Boas 

 stated that pictographs varied in age a 

 great deal; Mr. Kronau compared them to 

 'visiting cards' and the scribbling and 

 drawing on walls, etc., among ourselves to- 

 day; Dr. Ambrosetti noted resemblances 

 between the pictographs of the Argentine 

 and those of the Pueblo country of the 

 United States; Professor Putnam men- 

 tioned the interesting fact that the Guada- 

 lupe petroglyph described at the first Con- 

 gress of Americanists had recently been 

 placed in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



The next paper read was by Dr. Alex- 

 ander F. Chamberlain on 'The Algonquian 

 Linguistic Stock. ' The author pointed out 

 the wide extension of this Amerindian 

 family and its influence upon other stocks. 

 Also the part played by Algonquians 

 (Pocahontas, Powhatan, King Philip, 

 Pontiac, Tecumseh, Black Hawk) in the 

 sontact with the whites, and the contribu- 

 tions of the Algonquian dialects to the 

 spoken and written English of America 

 — over 130 words (including chipmunk, 

 . hickory, hominy, mugwump, powwow, rac- 



coon, skunk, squash, Tammany, terrapin, 

 toboggan, totem, woodchuck, etc.) belong 

 here. The dialectal divergence of Black- 

 foot, Arapalio, Cheyenne and Micmac, and 

 the widespread Naniboju myth offer tempt- 

 ing fields for research. Dr. Chamberlain 

 hoped to see the day when the Algonquian 

 tongues would be studied as thoroughly 

 as Greek and Latin have been. This 

 paper was discussed by Dr. Boas, who 

 pointed out that some twenty other linguis- 

 tic stocks were also in dire need of being 

 studied, and by Dr. McGee, who emphasized 

 the importance of the questions involved 

 in the rapid changes the aborigines were 

 undergoing, not only in speech, but in cus- 

 toms and institutions. From 5:30 to 6 

 P.M. the delegates attended a reception 

 tendered them in the museum by Professor 

 H. C. Bumpus and Mrs. Bumpus. In the 

 evening they were invited to the meeting 

 of the Geological Section of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences. 



TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21. 



The entire morning was devoted to the 

 demonstrations of the collections of tho 

 various sections of the museum by the offi- 

 cials in charge, and was pleasantly and 

 profitably spent. Many interesting private 

 discussions arose and interchanges of 

 opinion were made. The Lansing speci- 

 mens came in for a full share of inspection, 

 as did also those from the Trenton Gravel, 

 which Professor Putnam ably interpreted 

 to his colleagues. 



The afternoon session began with Dr. 

 Ambrosetti in the chair, who, after briefly 

 sketching the anthropological work done 

 recently in the Argentine Republic, read an 

 interesting and valuable paper (in French) 

 on 'The Archeology of the Calchaqui Re- 

 gion.' The stone monuments and other 

 relies, mummies, graves and mounds, fun- 

 eral urns, disks and plates of bronze and 

 other materials, weapons, ornaments, pot- 



