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SCIENCE 



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tillate oil and nicotine spray in the spring just 

 as the buds were swelling and before the bud 

 scales had separated sufficiently to allow the 

 entrance of the minute insects. A thorough 

 drenching application of trees at this time, fol- 

 lowed by a second treatment just before the 

 blossoms opened, resulted in the destruction of a 

 very high percentage of the insects in orchards 

 and insured ordinarily a good crop of fruit. How- 

 ever, in case where these two sprayings were not 

 properly accomplished, a treatment against the 

 larvie after the falling of the blossoms was advised, 

 thus protecting the foliage from injury and pre- 

 venting scabbing of prunes, which in the absence 

 of treatment is often extremely prevalent, greatly 

 lowering the grade of the product. 



Full confidence was expressed in the outcome 

 of the work now in progress, but one of the great- 

 est difficulties experienced was stated to be neces- 

 sary cooperation of individual growers in some 

 sections. 



The first communication was discussed by sev- 

 eral members. 



D. E. Lantz, 

 Recording Secretary 



THE ANTHKOPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 449th regular meeting of the society was 

 neld in the hall of the Public Library, November 

 15, I9I0, 8 P.M., with the president, Dr. J. W. 

 Fewkes, in the chair. 



The first paper of the evening was on " New 

 England Life in Old Almanacs," by Mr. George 

 R. Stetson. The earliest almanac extant from 

 New England is dated 1645. The almanac litera- 

 ture forms quite an extensive library. In the 

 Astor Library there are recorded about 2,000 

 titles. Besides the calendarium proper, the al- 

 manacs contain information and give advice on 

 all the relations and conditions of life. Much 

 attention is given in them to the movements of the 

 celestial bodies and their phenomena, especially 

 to comets. In fact, the old almanacs, like many 

 of their later successors, were small cyclopedias, 

 and thus shed much instructive and interesting 

 light on the life of the times in all its relations 

 and phases. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka followed with an account of 

 the exploration of " An Ancient Sepulcher at San 

 Juan Teotihuacan, with Anthropological Notes on 

 the Teotihuacan People." San Juan, which is 

 about forty miles distant from the City of Mexico, 

 was the sacred city of what was perhaps the first 



civilized race that inhabited Mexico. The site is 

 marked by two stepped pyramids, called the 

 " pyramid of the sun " and the " pyramid of the 

 moon " respectively. They are faced by a court of 

 monuments, which are assumed to have been tem- 

 ples, called the " street of the dead." The grave 

 opened by Dr. Hrdlicka was situated about 250 

 yards southeast of the E.S.E. corner of the pyra- 

 mid of the sun. In this grave, which was shielded 

 by two cement fioors (aside from layers of earth 

 and rubble), were found two skeletons, one of a 

 man about forty-five years of age, the other of a 

 woman of over fifty years of age, buried in the 

 classic contracted fetus-in-utero position. Both 

 bodies must have been interred simultaneously, 

 for there was no displacement of any of the bones. 

 They lay parallel, with head to the east. Near the 

 skeletons were found earthenware dishes, frag- 

 ments of mother-of-pearl rings, beautiful obsidian 

 knives of the long, slightly curved, flake variety, 

 a shell disk and a bowl provided with three short 

 legs. The bones show no traces of disease or any 

 injuries in life, but both the crania are artificially 

 deformed; this is specially true of the female. 

 The deformation is of the fronto-oceipital variety. 

 But the deformation is not so great as to prevent 

 the recognition of the original type of tlie crania — 

 they were both brachycephalie. The stature of the 

 two individuals, as far as can be judged from the 

 bones, was rather above medium, as compared with 

 that of the present native population in the 

 valley, and the same may be said of the strength 

 of the bones. 



Dr. Hrdlicka called attention to the following 

 points of interest connected with the find: (1) 

 the peculiar construction of the grave; (2) the 

 fact that here were buried together an adult man 

 and an adult woman suggests a sacrifice of the 

 woman on the occasion of the death of her hus- 

 band; (3) here is for the first time found what 

 looks as clear evidence that the artificial head- 

 deformation of the flathead type was actually 

 practised by at least a part of the ancient inhab- 

 itants of these regions, and (4) it is evident that 

 the ancient builders of Teotihuacan, or at least 

 an important part of them, were of the brachy- 

 cephalie type. 



The two skeletons, as well as the objects found 

 with them, are deposited at the San Juan Museum. 



The paper was discussed by Messrs. Lamb, 

 Fewkes, Hewitt and Gronberger. 



J. M. Casanowicz, 



Secretary 



