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[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 567. 



On Saturday, September 2, an excursion 

 was made to Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity. The buildings and grounds were 

 shown the party and luncheon was tend- 

 ered by officers of the university. Twenty 

 members took part in this excursion. 



EESOLUTIONS. 



'Resolutions, as follows, were unanimously 

 passed by the association : Resolutions ex- 

 pressing appreciation of the courtesy and 

 hospitality of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst; of 

 the Academy of Sciences, and of Vice- 

 President Bull and Director Loomis ; of 

 the University of California and President 

 Wheeler; of Mr. Luther Burbank; and of 

 the Leland Stanford Junior University; 

 also expressing appreciation of the success- 

 ful energy and direction of Professor Put- 

 nam, president of the association, and of 

 Dr. Kroeber, secretary of the committee 

 on program and arrangements ; also by the 

 visiting members, expressing their appre- 

 ciation of the hospitality of the resident 

 members. 



PAPERS EEAD. 



August 29, .1905. 



Dr. Frederick Ward Putnam, director of the 

 Museum of Anthropology of the University of 

 California, and curator of the Peabody Museum of 

 Harvard University : ' Exhibition of Bones, Pos- 

 sibly showing the Work of Man, from Quaternary 

 Caves of California.' Discussed by Mrs. Herrick, 

 Hill-Tout, J. C. Merriam. 



Mr. Charles Hill-Tout, Ethnological Survey 

 of Canada : ' Heterogeneity of the Culture of the 

 Selish Tribes.' Discussed by Dixon, Goddard, C. 

 Hart Merriam, Kroeber, Barrett. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam, chief of the Biological 

 Survey, Washington, D. C. : ' The Aboriginal In- 

 dian Population of California.' Discussed by 

 Mrs. Herrick, McLeod, Barrett. 



Dr. R. B. Dixon, Harvard University : ' The 

 Mythology of the Shasta-Achomawi Indians of 

 California.' Discussed by Hill-Tout, C. H. Mer- 

 riam. 



Miss Constance Goddard DuBois, Waterbury, 

 Conn. : ' Mission Religious Myths.' Illustrated 

 with phonograph records. Discussed by C. H. 

 Merriam, Peabody. 



August 30, 1905. 



Mrs R. F. Herrick, Eureka, Calif.: 'The In- 

 dians of Humboldt Bay.' Discussed by Hill-Tout, 

 Keeler, Rust. 



Dr. J. C. Merriam, University of California: 

 ' The Exploration of Quaternary Caves in Cali- 

 fornia.' Illustrated with lantern slides. Dis- 

 cussed by Peabody. 



Dr. a. Hrdlicka, assistant curator, physical 

 anthrc pology, U. S. National Museum: 'A Con- 

 tribution to the Physical Anthropology of Cali- 

 fornia.' 



Mr. S. a. Barrett, University of California: 

 ' Presentation of a Map showing the Territory, 

 Divisions, Villages and Camp-Sites of the Pomo 

 Indians of California.' Discussed by C. H. Mer- 

 riam, Dixon. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Washington, D. C. : ' The 

 Chievor of the Tongva, a Mortuary Ceremony.' 

 Discussed by Miss DuBois, Dixon, Hill-Tout. 



Mr. p. S. Sparkman, Valley Centre, San Diego 

 County, Calif. : ' The Grammar of the Luiseiio 

 Language of Southern California.' Discussed by 

 Hill-Tout. 



Dr. Philip Mills Jones, secretary and editor 

 of the Medical Society of the State of California: 

 ' Brief Description of a Method for preserving 

 Shell Specimens.' Discussed by Putnam. 



Dr. Charles Peabody and Warren K. Moore- 

 head, Archeological Museum of Phillips Academy, 

 Andover, Mass. : ' The Naming of Specimens in 

 American Archeology.' Discussed by Hill-Tout. 



Dr. J. C. Merriam, University of California: 

 ' The Excavations at Emeryville Shell Mound.' 

 Illustrated with lantern slides. Discussed by 

 Dixon, Hill-Tout, Putnam. 



Mr. H. N. Rust, South Pasadena, Calif.: 'A 

 Ceremony of the Mission Indians of Southern 

 California.' Discussed by Kroeber, Miss DuBois, 

 Hill-Tout, Putnam. 



Dr. a. L. Kroeber, University of California: 

 ' Exhibition of a Basket, now in the California 

 Academy of Sciences, from the Extinct Indians of 

 San Nicolas Island, California.' Discussed by 

 McLeod, Rust. 



Mr. F. I. MoNSEN, San Francisco, Calif. : ' Ex- 

 plorations in Northern Arizona and New Mexico.' 

 Discussed by Putnam. 



August 31, 1905. 

 Dr. a. L. Kroeber, secretary of the department 

 of anthropology. University of California : ' Sys- 

 tematic Nomenclature in American Ethnology.' 

 Discussed by J. C. Merriam, C. H. Merriam, 

 Hill-Tout, Dixon, Peabody. 



