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SCIENCE 



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special committee with power to act and to 

 submit their action for the approval of the 

 Council of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science: Fran^ Boas 

 (chairman), W. H. Holmes, A. L. Kroeber 

 and J. McK. Cattell. The resolution sub- 

 mitted to the council by this committee is 

 as follows: 



First. The recommendation of the Com- 

 mittee on Policy to change the designation 

 of Section H from 'Section of Anthro- 

 pology' to 'Section of Anthropology and 

 Psychology' is approved. 



Second. The Committee recommends to 

 the consideration of the Council and of 

 the Committee on Policy the desirability 

 of a better coordination of the sections and 

 of the affiliated societies, particularly the 

 desirability of having the president and 

 the secretary of one of the affiliated socie- 

 ties act at the same time as sectional vice- 

 president and sectional secretary. The 

 Committee also recommends to the Council 

 and to the Committee on Policy a consider- 

 ation of the question whether, in view of 

 the close affiliation of scientific societies, 

 the discontinuance of sectional meetings 

 and of the sectional organization may not 

 be desirable. 



In harmony with the foregoing resolu- 

 tions, the section deviated from its custom 

 in regard to officers and named for vice- 

 president the president of an affiliated 

 society, the list of sectional officers elected, 

 subject to the approval of the General 

 Committee of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, being: 



Vice-president — Pranz Boas. 



Memler of the Council — W J McGee. 



Member of the Sectional Committee to serve 

 five years — W. H. Holmes. 



Member of the General Committee — M. H. 

 Saville. 



The officers of the American Anthro- 

 pological Association are: 



President — Professor Franz Boas, New York. 



Secretary — Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



Treasurer—Mr. B. Talbot B. Hyde, New York. 

 Editor—Mr. F. W. Hodge, Washington. 



A number of social functions were 

 arranged by the local executive committee 

 for the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science and the affiliated 

 societies. 



The president of Columbia University 

 received in Earl Hall from nine to eleven 

 o'clock on the evening of December 27. 



A luncheon was given at the College of 

 the City of New York, 138th Street and 

 Amsterdam Avenue, on December 29, with 

 addresses preceding, and an inspection of 

 the new buildings following. 



An invitation was extended by the board 

 of trustees of the American Museum of 

 Natural History to be present at the cere- 

 monies attending the unveiling of the 

 busts of ten American men of science pre- 

 sented to the Museum by Mr. Morris K. 

 Jesup, which took place on the afternoon 

 of the twenty-ninth. In the absence of 

 Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Professor Henry 

 F. Osborn presided. The presentation on 

 behalf of Mr. Morris K. Jesup was made 

 by Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus; and the ac- 

 ceptance on behalf of the trustees, by the 

 Honorable Joseph H. Choate. Brief me- 

 morial addresses were made: Benjamin 

 Franklin, by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell; Alex- 

 ander von Humboldt, by His Excellency 

 Baron Speck von Sternburg ;^ John James 

 Audubon, by Dr. C. Hart Merriam ; John 

 Torrey, by Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton; 

 Joseph Henry, by Dr. Robert S. Wood- 

 ward; Louis Agassiz, by the Eev. Edward 

 E. Hale;^ James Dwight Dana, by Presi- 

 dent Arthur T. Hadley; Spencer FuUerton 

 Baird, by Dr. Hugh M. Smith; Joseph 

 Leidy, by Dr. William K. Brooks ; Edward 

 Drinker Cope, by Dr. Henry F. Osborn. 



'Address read by Count Hatzfeldt, first secre- 

 tary of the embassy. 



"Letter read in the absence of Dr. Hale. 



