November 8, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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once lived in the Chelly caiion. A very 

 old wotnau of Moki still lives whose mother 

 was born in a Chelly canon cliff house. 

 The cliff house may have been very old at 

 that time, however. There are some very 

 old cliff houses, while others are compara- 

 tively modern. 



Discussion : Dorsey, Holsinger and ex- 

 Governor Prince, of New Mexico. Governor 

 Prince said the territory of New Mexico 

 had offered the Old Palace in Santa Fe as 

 a branch of the Smithsonian Institution. 



A paper by J. Crawford on ' Sculptured 

 Stone Images of Man by the Aborigines in 

 Nicaragua,' and one by Charles E. Slocum, 

 entitled, 'A Plea for Greater Simplicity and 

 Greater Accuracy, in the Writings of the 

 Future, regarding the American Aborigines,' 

 were read by title. 



On Tuesday, at 4 p. m.. Section H ad- 

 journed to hear Mrs. John Hayes Ham- 

 mond's lecture on ' The Cliff Dwellings of 

 Colorado,' illustrated by lantern slides. 



Dr. Fewkes's lecture Friday evening, on 

 ' The Moki Snake Dance,' illustrated by 

 lantern slides, was also of special interest 

 to anthropologists, though nob a part of the 

 regular program. 



A letter was read from Miss Alice C. 

 Fletcher, who, in her enforced absence on 

 account of illness, sent greetings to the 

 Section ; also a letter from Mrs. Daniel G. 

 Brinton, to the effect that a new edition of 

 * The American Eace ' would appear in 

 September of this year. 



The report of the ^ Committee on the 

 Teaching of Anthropology in America,' 

 which was read before Section H by Dr. 

 McGee, was printed in Science of Septem- 

 ber 6, p. 353. 



The report of the * Committee on Anthro- 

 pometric Measurements,' including the re- 

 quest for a grant of $50, was recommended 

 and later adopted by the Council. 



Section H was authorized to hold a winter 

 meeting, the time and place to be decided 



upon by the Sectional Committee. The 

 winter meeting will be held in Chicago 

 during Convention Week of 1901-02. 



The newly elected officers for the Pitts- 

 burg meeting are : 



Vice-President, Stewart Culin, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Secretary, Harlan I. Smith, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York. 



The invitation extended to Section H by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert McClurg, of Colorado 

 Springs, to inspect their cliff dwelling col- 

 lection on Monday, September 2, was 

 very generally accepted. The same week, 

 a party of anthropologists visited the cliff 

 dwellings of the Mesa Verde in south- 

 western Colorado as guests of the ladies of 

 the Directorate of the Colorado Cliff Dwell- 

 ings Association, of which Mrs. McClurg is 



Eegent. 



George Grant MacCurdy, 



Secretary of Section H. 



EARLY WINTER COLORS OF PLANT FORMA- 

 TIONS ON THE GREAT PLAINS* 



One who has not been upon the Great 

 Plains in the early winter, after the autumn 

 frosts have changed the prevailing green of 

 the landscape, can have little conception of 

 the variet}^ of the colors which meet the 

 eye. These include several shades of red, 

 two or more of orange, one or more of yel- 

 low, two of green, a dark blue, a purple, 

 several browns and blacks, and many 

 grays. With a little practice the eye can 

 distinguish from twenty to twenty-five 

 shades of color, sometimes blending into 

 one another almost insensibly, or standing 

 out in marked contrast upon the landscape 

 picture. 



It does not require long study to show 

 that so far as the natural vegetation is con- 

 cerned these colors conform to the distribu- 

 tion of the various plant formations, and 



* Read before the meeting of the Botanical Society 

 of America, in Denver, August, 1901. 



