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papers set forth in an interesting manner the 

 efforts being made to promote good citizenship. 

 On December 2 Dr. D. S. Lamb read a paper 

 on Eudolph Virchow, Miss Harriet A. Boyd 

 gave a resume of the important discoveries of 

 the past few years in Crete, and Professor 

 Hohnes presented examples of Central Ameri- 

 can sculpture. 



The twenty-fourth annual meeting was held 

 on January 6, 1903, and the following officers 

 were elected: 



President — Miss Alice C. Fletcher. 

 General Secretary — Walter Hough. 

 Treasurer — P. B. Pierce. 



Councilors — Dr. G. M. Kober, Dr. D. S. Lamb 

 and F. W. Hodge. 



At the following meeting of the board of 

 managers there were elected: 



Secretary to the Board — J. D. McGuire. 



Curator — ^Mrs. Marianna P. Seaman. 



Councilors — Hannah L. Bartlett, J. Walter 

 Fewkes, Weston Flint, J. W. B. Hewitt, J. H. 

 MeCormiek, J. D. McGuire, J. R. Swauton and 

 Edith C. Wescott. 



Vice-Presidents of the Sections — D. S. Lamb, 

 Frank Baker, W. H. Holmes, J. Walter Fewkes, 

 George M. Kober, W J McGee and Lester P. Ward. 



At the meeting of January 20 a paper was 

 read by J. Dyneley Prince and Mr. Frank 

 Speck, on ' The Modern Pequots and their 

 Language,' which was discussed by Dr. A. S. 

 Gatschet, who remarked that this paper con- 

 tains almost all we know about the vanishing 

 Pequots. The general secretary read a paper 

 entitled ' The Gypsy,^ which brought out gen- 

 eral discussion. 



At the meeting of February 3, the retiring 

 president, W. H. Holmes, delivered his annual 

 address under the auspices of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, the subject being ' A 

 Genetic View of Man and Culture.' The 

 scope of the science of anthropology was de- 

 fined and the limitations and relations of its 

 various branches considered. By means of 

 diagrams, the genetic relations of the various 

 groups of physical, mental and cultural phe- 

 nomena were indicated, and the methods of 

 research in the various fields and the manner 

 of applying the knowledge acquired to the 



elucidation of human history were discussed. 

 At the meeting of February 17 Dr. John R. 

 Swanton's paper on ' The Religion of the 

 Haida Indians ' gave voluminovis information 

 on a subject almost entirely untouched, hereto- 

 fore. The second paper, by Mr. C. A. Simms, 

 described a wheel-shaped monument discov- 

 ered by him in Wyoming. 



At the meeting of March 4, under the head 

 of varieties, Dr. G. M. Kober read an extract 

 from American Medicine on ' Hereditary Pau- 

 perism'; Professor Holmes gave details as to 

 the new museum building ; the president. Miss 

 Fletcher, read a letter from Dr. G. G. Mac- 

 Curdy in response to an inquiry concerning the 

 course of anthropology at Yale, and remarked 

 on Dr. Codrington's observations on the sta- 

 bility of unwritten language based on the 

 Solomon Islanders, whose vocabulary has had 

 no change in 300 years ; she also announced 

 the death of Mrs. Mary L. D. Putnam, of 

 Davenport, Iowa. 



Professor L. F. Ward followed with a paper 

 on ' The Cross-fertilization of Cultures.' He 

 dealt with origins, tracing the course of two 

 or several independent human nuclei up to 

 the point of meeting and contact, which, ac- 

 cording to circumstances, determined peaceful 

 or warlike races. He traced the origin of the 

 state through militancy by various stages 

 until conquerors and conquered are united 

 under a war chieftain who is depended on, thus 

 giving stability. Then races mix on the line 

 of contact between the conquerors and con- 

 quered, forming a people, and we have cross- 

 fertilization of races. In discussion, Pro- 

 fessor Holmes said that we can now almost 

 safely go back along the lines marked out by 

 Professor Ward and depict pre-man. 



In the next paper, by Dr. J. H. McOormick, 

 on ' Prehistoric Remains of Mobile Bay/ the 

 ancient mounds and sites of historic interest 

 in the locality were described. 



At the meeting of March 17 the president 

 read a communication from Mr. Hill Tout, 

 giving the aims of the Ethnographic Survey 

 of Canada, of which he is secretary, and com- 

 mented on the plan. 



