December 5, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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of tlie professors and attendants, the party 

 met in the dining-hall, where an excellent 

 and very enjoyable limch was served on be- 

 half of the university. A brief and grace- 

 ful speech of welcome was made by Presi- 

 dent Butler, and, on motion of Dr. Hol- 

 land, a heai'ty vote of thanks was tendered 

 Columbia University for its hospitalitj^ and 

 other courtesies. 



It was some time past the usual hour 

 of meeting when the congress began the 

 afternoon session, Avith Dr. Karl von den 

 Steinen in the chair, who, in his introduc- 

 tory remarks, paid a glowing tribute to the 

 great German anthropologist recently de- 

 ceased, declaring that not since Humboldt 

 had there been so firm a friend of the in- 

 ternationality of science as Rudolf Virchow. 



The first paper of the afternoon was that 

 of Mr. Parwell, on ' The Ethnic and Artistic 

 Significance of American Indian Music. ' 

 After a brief statement of his theories, the 

 author rendered on the piano an Omaha 

 melody, 'The Old Man's Love Song'— first 

 in its native simplicity, then 'harmonized,' 

 and then elaborated, after the manner of 

 the composer, with as much fidelity to 

 legend and Indian surroundings as pos- 

 sible. A 'War Dance' melody was treated 

 in like fashion. This subject was pre- 

 viously treated by Mr. Farwell in his 'In- 

 dian Melodies Harmonized,' published in 

 1901. In the discussion Dr. Boas touched 

 upon some of the scientific questions in- 

 volved, and noted the need for more and 

 better understood data before the construc- 

 tion of theories. 



Professor Starr's paper, on 'The Phys- 

 ical Features of South Mexican Indians,' 

 was devoted to an account of the author's 

 investigations of the physical character- 

 istics (physiognomic in particular) of 

 many different tribes. Life-size represen- 

 tations (from photographs) of the heads 

 of type specimens of each tribe were hung 

 up in the hall and referred to by the author 



in illustration of his statements. Professor 

 Starr also indicated the disposition of the 

 very limited number of busts of Mexican 

 Indians which he had caused to be made. 

 After the paper Seiior Leon complimented 

 the author in Spanish. 



Mr. van Panhuys then made some brief 

 remarks on the evidence as to 'Pygmies in 

 French Guiana.' The proof, as Dr. von 

 den Steinen took occasion to remark, was 

 far from convincing. 



The next paper, by Mr. George B. Grin- 

 nell, treated briefly of 'The Social Organ- 

 ization of the Cheyenne Indians,' a people 

 who 225 years ago lived on the flanks of the 

 Rocky Mountains, outliers of the Algon- 

 quian stock. The clans are exogamous with 

 maternal descent, and comparative equality 

 of the sexes. 



Mr. Alfred M. Tozzer's paper, on 'A 

 Navag'o Sand Pietune,' was valuable as 

 showing the practical conservatism of these 

 delineations and ceremonials, certain fea- 

 tures observed by the author being identi- 

 cal with those noted by Dr. Washington 

 Matthews twenty years previously. 



The paper by Dr. Kroeber, on 'The In- 

 dians of Northwestern California, ' and that 

 by Dr. Dixon and Dr. Kroeber, on 'The 

 Languages of California,' illustrated by 

 jnaps of distribution, were interesting stud- 

 ies in comparative philology and culture 

 history. The various subgroups of lan- 

 giiages were indicated and their phonetic, 

 structural and lexical peculiarities noted. 

 The opinion was expressed that the divers- 

 ities of culture followed in general in this 

 region the same lines as those of language. 



The last paper (lecture, rather) of the 

 day was by Mrs. McClurg, regent of the 

 Women's Cliff Dwellings Association of 

 Coloi'ado City, on 'The People of the 

 Pueblos, ' and was of a very general nature. 



In the evening Mr. Jesup gave a dinner 

 for the foreign delegates. 



