NOVEMBEK 10, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



593 



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

 ' Basket Cave Burial in California.' Discussed 

 by McLeod, Putnam. 



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

 Obsidian Blades of Northern California.' Dis- 

 cussed by Putnam. 



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

 ' Basket Designs of the Pomo Indians.' Discussed 

 by C. H. Merriam. 



Dr. p. E. Goddard, department of anthropology. 

 University of California : ' Mechanical Aids to the 

 Study and Recording of Language.' Discussed by 

 Putnam. 



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

 ' Some Suggestions concerning the Origin of the 

 Calaveras Skull.' Illustrated with lantern slides. 

 Discussed by Hill-Tout. 



Mr. Charles Keeler, Berkeley, Calif. : ' Crea- 

 tion Myths and Folk Tales of the Manua Islands, 

 Samoa.' Discussed by Dixon. 



Mr. J. T. Goodman, Alameda, Calif. : ' The Maya 

 Dates.' Discussed by Putnam. 



Mr. C. C. Willoughby, assistant curator. Pea- 

 body Museum of Harvard University : ' Specimens 

 in the Peabody Museum collected by the Lewis 

 and Clark Expedition.' 



Mb. H. N. Rust, South Pasadena, Calif.: 'Ex- 

 hibition of Implements from San Nicolas Island, 

 used for Cutting and Worlsiing Shell Ornaments.' 



Professor Howard Swan, Imperial College, 

 Peking, China : ' A Systematic Arrangement for 

 Recording Dialects.' 



Professor W. H. Holmes, Washington, D. C: 

 ' Antiquity of Man in North America.' Discussed 

 by Putnam, Peabody, Swan. 



Dr. F. C. Newcombe, Victoria, B. C. : ' Exhibi- 

 tion of Northwestern Indian Designs.' Discussed 

 by Hill-Tout. 



BY TITLE. 



Mb. Charles F. Lummis, secretary of the 

 SoutliAvest Society, Los Angeles, of the Archeolog- 

 ical Institute of America: 'Old Indian and Span- 

 ish Folk Songs of the Southwest.' Illustrated 

 with phonograph records. 



Mr. C. p. Mackie, Englewood, N. J.: 'A Plea 

 for the more Critical Use of History in Anthro- 

 pological Research.' 



Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, Yale Univer- 

 sity : ' Eoliths from England and Belgium.' 



Dr. C. Hart INIerbiam, Washington, D. C. : 

 ' Basketry of California Indians.' 



Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks, chief of the Ethno- 

 logical Survey of the Philippine Islands, Manila: 

 ' The Peopling of the Philippines.' 



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

 ' Indian System of Consanguinity in California.' 



Miss Jeanne Elizabeth Wieb, Nevada State 

 University : ' The Washoe Indians of Nevada.' 



Db. N. B. Emebson, Honolulu, Hawaii : " In- 

 troduction to ' Unwritten Literature of Hawaii.' " 



Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, director of the Crocker 

 researches in Mexico for the department of an- 

 thropology of the University of California : ' The 

 Earliest Historical Communications between 

 Japan and Mexico, from Original Documents pre- 

 served in Archives of Japan, recently brought 

 to Light by a Mexican Diplomat.' 



Mb. Alvin Seale, Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity : ' Ceremonies relating to Sickness and 

 Death in the Solomon Islands.' 



Miss Alice C. Fletcher, Washington, D. C. : 

 ' The Earth Lodge and its Migrations.' 



Mr. James Mooney, Washington, D. C. : ' The 

 Cheyenne Indians.' 



Mr. James Mooney, Washington, D. C. : ' The 

 Caloosa Tribe of Florida.' 



Dr. J. R. SwANTON, Washington, D. C. : ' The 

 Social Organization of American Tribes.' 



Professor W. H. Holmes, Washington, D. C. : 

 ' Architecture of the Aborigines of North 

 America.' 



Professor W. H. Holmes, Washington, D. C. : 

 ' Use of Copper by the Aborigines of North 

 America.' 



Professor W. H. Holmes, Washington, D. C. : 

 ' Problematical Objects in the Prehistoric Archeol- 

 ogy of North America.' 



It was voted that no program be pro- 

 posed for the meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, at New Orleans, and that the annual 

 meeting be held at Ithaca, New York, in 

 December, 1905. 



George Grant MacCurdy, 



Secretary. 

 Yale University Museum, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 Evolution^ Racial and Hahitudinal. By the 

 Kev. John T, Gulick. Washington, Car- 

 negie Institution, August, 1905. 8vo. Pp. 

 xii + 269 ; 3 pi. 



Dr. Gulick for more than thirty years has 

 been an earnest advocate of the importance 

 of segregation of groups of individuals as an 



