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SCIENCE 



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Porto Rico were, however, injiabited by primitive 

 men of low culture and characteristic speech when 

 America was discovered. 



Artificial eaves in the Verde Valley, Arizona, 

 were shown to resemble those in Asia Minor, the 

 Crimea, Caucasus Mountains and Canary Islands. 

 Exact counterparts of the " tent rocks " or " cone 

 dwellings " of the Otowi Canyon, in New Mexico, 

 occur in Cappadocia near Csesarea Mazaca. Views 

 were shown illustrating the resemblances of cer- 

 tain cliff houses in Arizona,, and monastic estab- 

 lishments in Thessaly. The speaker called atten- 

 tion to an inhabited subterranean village Mat- 

 mata, in northern Africa, and underground hab- 

 itations, now deserted, in volcanic cones near 

 Flagstaff, Arizona. The resemblance in architec- 

 ture of a Berber village in the Sahara to a Hopi 

 pueblo, was incidentally considered. 



Views were shown of oriental rock temples, the 

 most striking of which were those of the rock city, 

 Petra, in Syria, which was characterized as the 

 most exceptional cliff ruin in the world. 



The 447th regular meeting of the Anthropolog- 

 ical Society, held April 26, 1910, was also its 

 31st annual meeting. 



The meeting opened with reading of the minutes 

 of last year's annual meeting. The secretary 

 then read a report of the activities of the society 

 during the last session which, briefly stated, was 

 as follows: The society held fourteen meetings 

 with an average attendance of 64 members and 

 guests. At these meetings twenty papers were 

 presented by sixteen contributors. 



The president. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, commem- 

 orated in a few appropriate words the members 

 of the society who during last session departed 

 this life, viz.. Professor Enrico Giglioli, of the 

 Museum of Florence, Italy, who has been an hon- 

 orary member, and Professor Simon Newcomb 

 and Mr. W. C. Whittemore, active members. 



The society then proceeded to the election of 

 officers, which resulted as follows: 



President— J. Walter Fewkes. 



Y ice-president — George R. Stetson. 



Secretary— 1. M. Casanowicz. 



Treasurer — George C. Maynard. 



Additional mernbers of the Board of Managers 

 (besides the former presidents of the society, who 

 are ex officio permanent members of the board) — 

 William H. Babcock, J. N. B. Hewitt, David 

 Hutcheson, Edwin L. Morgan, John R. Swanton. 



I. M. Casanowicz, 



Secretary 



THE MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 

 SECTION OF ZOOLOGY 



The regular meetings of the section were held 

 March 31 and April 1, 1910, at the University of 

 Michigan. The following papers were read: 



" Notes on Michigan Reptiles and Amphibia, 

 II.," A. G. Ruthven. 



" Some New Light on the Development of Rep- 

 tilia," E. C. Case. 



" Variation in Lymncea reflexa Say, from Huron 

 County," H. Burrington Baker. 



" The Crustacea of Michigan," A. S. Pearse. 



" Preliminary Report on the Anatomy of Physa 

 gyrina Say," H. Burrington Baker. 



" Notes on the Distribution of the Unionidae of 

 North America," Bryant Walker. 



" Regeneration in the Nerves of Cambarus," H. 

 M. MacCurdy. 



" A Contribution to the Theory of Binuclear- 

 ity " (lantern slides), R. W. Hegner. 



■' The Origin and Meaning of the Second Polar 

 Body," Chas. R. Barr. 



" On Two Abnormalities in the Crayfish," Lucia 

 Harmon. 



" The Rotary Power of Extracts of the Bodies 

 of Snails," Elliot R. Downing. 



" The Formation of Habit at High Speed," 0. C. 

 Glaser. 



" Notes on some of the Rarer Species of Mich- 

 igan Birds," Walter B. Barrows. 



"Methods of Photographing Birds" (lantern 

 slides), R. W. Hegner. 



" A Simple Cooling Device for Use with the 

 Microtome," O. C. Glaser. 



" A Word on Double Embryos," O. C. Glaser. 



"The Theory of Mimicry" (lantern slides), 

 Jacob Reigiard. 



" The Pearl Organs of American Minnows in 

 their Relation to the Factors of Descent" (lan- 

 tern slides), Jacob Reighard. 



" Some Methods of Studying Vision in Fishes, 

 with Demonstration of Apparatus," Crystal 

 Thompson and Mary Axt. 



" A Remedy for the Black Fly Pest in the 

 Southern Peninsula of Michigan," Cora D. 

 Reeves. 



" Experiments on the Role Played by Odors in 

 Determining the Behavior of Bees," Max Peet. 



" Mimicry in Tahamis atratus," S. D. Niagers. 



'■ The Mendelian Law Demonstrated by the Do- 

 mestic Fowls," S. D. Magers. 



R. W. Hegner, 



Secretary 



Ann Abbob, Mich. 



