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beds. Professor Salisbury reviewed the 
geologic discussion, pointing out that the 
relations were such that, if the objects un- 
der consideration were fossils, no geologist 
would think of regarding the association as 
significant; and Professor Holmes recalled 
attention to the fact that the argillite arti- 
facts are indistinguishable from those pro- 
duced by Indians living in that vicinity up 
to the beginning of the present century. 
The symposium was notable for the thor- 
ough knowledge of the facts displayed by 
several participants, as well as for the 
courtesy with which it was conducted. 
The morning session of August 12th was 
opened with the exhibition ofan archzeologic 
map of Ohio by Warren K. Moorehead, 
who described the methods pursued in his 
archeologic survey of the State. The map 
received favorable comment throughout the 
section as representing the most ambitious 
and successful work of the kind thus far un- 
dertaken in America. Thenext paper, ‘ The 
Import of the Totem—a Study of the Omaha 
Tribe,’ by Miss Alice Fletcher, was a re- 
remarkably full yet concise memoir repre- 
senting the results of thorough study. It 
was favorably discussed by Dr. Matthews, 
Dr. Peet, Professor Myers and others (it 
will appear elsewhere in this JouRNAL). 
The afternoon session commenced with 
two elaborate papers illustrated by photo- 
graphs, on the Tagbanua and the Mangyan 
tribes of the Phillipines, by Professor Dean 
C. Worcester; the tribes being discussed sep- 
arately by reason of important differences 
in their customs and beliefs. Their phys- 
ical characteristics, their marriage and mor- 
tuary customs, their arts and industries 
and their beliefs were described in detail. 
Then came a full account of the anthropo- 
logic work of the New York Pathological 
Institute, by Dr. Hrdlicka, the Superin- 
tendent. The chief object of this work is 
the establishment of average or normal 
standards, physical, physiologic and psy- 
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chologic, especially of American-born peo- 
ple; the methods or ancillary purposes were 
fully set forth and the value of the work was 
shown. This paper was followed by two 
suggestive papers by Harlan I. Smith, viz.: 
‘The Ethnologic Arrangement of Archzo- 
logic Material,’ and ‘ Popular Anthropology 
in Museums,’ read, in the absence of the 
author, by Dr. Saville. 
On August 13th the session was opened by 
an attractive paper, illustrated by numer- 
ous diagrams and tables, entitled ‘An Ex- 
perimental Analysis of the Relations of 
Rate of Movement to certain other Mental 
and Physical Processes,’ by Dr. Lightner 
Witmer. The results of the investigations 
described were full and far-reaching, and 
will doubtless be presented in some de- 
tail elsewhere. There followed ‘ A Sta- 
tistical Study of Eminent Men,’ by Pro- 
fessor J. McKeen Cattell ; it was presented 
by the Chairman in the absence of the 
author. It involved the application of a 
somewhat arbitrary method of measuring 
eminence quantitatively on the basis of the 
space devoted to individual biographies in 
certain selected encyclopedias and biograph- 
ical dictionaries; and, after finding the 
thousand most eminent men of the world 
in this manner, their distribution was dis- 
cussed by time, race, nation, ete. The re- 
sults were illustrated by diagrams. The 
paper was freely discussed by several mem- 
bers. ‘A Case of Trephining in North- 
western Mexico,’ by Carl Lumholtz, was 
presented, in the absence of the author, by 
Dr. Hrdlicka; it was deemed specially note- 
worthy as one of the most northerly exam- 
ples thus far known of a primitive art which 
attained great development in Peru; and 
also because of the suggestion, derived from 
the form of aperture, that the operation was 
performed by tubular drilling something 
after the fashion pursued in the modern op- 
eration. The next communication was ‘A 
Description of a Pre-Aztec Skeleton found 
