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SECTION H—ANTHROPOLOGT. 



Section H of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science held its 

 regular sessions at the fifty-third meeting, 

 which was in progress in St. Louis, Mo., 

 during convocation week. The American 

 Anthropological Association affiliated with 

 Section H. Owing to a meeting of the 

 anthropologists in New York City during 

 the latter part of October, few of the work- 

 ing members were present. 



The organization of Section H took place 

 on Monday morning, December 28, imme- 

 diately after the adjournment of the gen- 

 eral session. This session, as well as all 

 the subsequent ones, was held in room 

 218 of the Central High School. Owing 

 to the absence of the vice-president, Mar- 

 shall H. Saville, the council granted per- 

 mission to appoint a vice-president pro 

 tempore. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee was 

 elected to this office. The officers for the 

 meeting were as follows: 



Vice-President — ^Dr. Anita Newcomb MoGtee (in 

 the absence of M. H. Saville ) . 



Secretary — George H. Pepper. 



Member of Council — ^W J McGee. 



Sectional Committee — George A. Dorsey, vice- 

 president Section H, 1903 ; Roland B. Dixon, secre- 

 tary Section H, 1903; M. H. Saville, vice-president 

 Section H, 1904; George H. Pepper, secretary Sec- 

 tion H, 1904-08; William H. Holmes, P. W. 

 Hodge, W J McGee, Miss Alice C. Fletcher and 

 George Grant MacCurdy. 



Member of General Committee — Amos W. Butler. 



Officers of the American Anthropological 

 Association : 



President — W J McGee. 

 Secretary — George A. Dorsey. 



During the meeting the following mem- 

 bers of Section H were elected fellows: 

 Frederick W. Hodge and David I. Bush- 

 nell, Jr. 



Frank Russell, Ph.D., instructor in an- 

 thropology in the Peabody Museum, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., died in November, 1903, at 

 the age of thirty-five. He became a member 



of Section H of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science in 1896, 

 was made a fellow at the forty-sixth meet- 

 ing and was elected secretary of Section H 

 for the forty-ninth meeting, which was held 

 in 1900. 



Report of the committee on the death of 

 Dr. Frank Russell: 



Wheeeas, The death of Dr. Frank Russell has 

 removed from our ranks one whose career, though 

 brief, was full of achievement and promise; in 

 order to express our appreciation of what he was 

 and what he accomplished, as well as our personal 

 sense of loss through the untimely termination of 

 his labors, we recommend the following resolu- 

 tions : 



Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Russell the 

 association has lost one of its most efficient and 

 faithful workers in the field of anthropology, and 

 one wliose industry and patience, through years 

 of physical suffering, will remain a noble example 

 to his co-workers and all who knew him. 



Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be 

 sent to his widow and family, and that a copy 

 be placed among the records of the section. 

 Geoege a. Doesey, 

 George Grant MacCurdy, 

 George H. Pepper. 



The address of the retiring vice-presi- 

 dent. Dr. George A. Dorsey, 'The Future 

 of the Indian,' was delivered Wednesday 

 morning in Room 218 of the Central High 

 School. 



Owing to the small attendance and in 

 view of the fact that all the members 

 of the American Anthropological Associa- 

 tion present were members of Section H, 

 there was no formal meeting of the affili- 

 ating association, the vice-president of Sec- 

 tion H occupying the chair throughout the 

 meeting. 



The following is a list of papers pre- 

 sented, with discussions, and abstracts: 



TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29. 



Presentation of Eoliths from England and 

 Belgium: George Grant MacCurdy.- 

 Paleoliths from the Quaternary deposits 



of Europe had a long hard struggle for 



