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[N. S. Vol. XI. No. 265. 



MEETINGS AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, AND NEW 

 HAVEN, CONN., OF SECTION H, AN- 

 THROPOLOGY, OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 

 VANCE3IENT OF SCIENCE. 



The meeting at Columbus began with the 

 installation of the chairman, Professor 

 Thomas Wilson and the election of a secre- 

 tary in place of Dr. G. Dorsey, resigned. 



The report of the committee for the 

 ' Study of the White Race in America ' was 

 presented by Professor Cattell ; it was pro- 

 posed to establish a station for making cer- 

 tain physical and mental measurements at 

 the next meeting of the Association. 



In a paper on ' New Anthropometric 

 Methods ' Professor Cattell showed some 

 photographs taken with a centimeter netting 

 close to the face ; the method was said to 

 be of special value in making permanent 

 records of an indefinitely large number of 

 measurements. Dr. Frank Russell, in a 

 well-illustrated paper told of his measure- 

 ments on the skeletons of the Labrador 

 Eskimos and New England Indians. Pro- 

 fessor W J McGee described the begin- 

 nings of mathematics. 



The arch geological side of anthropology 

 was well represented. Professor G. Fred- 

 erick Wright claimed that the separation 

 between the Columbia and Trenton deposits 

 was not so great as supposed by many ; an 

 account of observations supporting this 

 claim was given in a paper on the ' Corre- 

 lation of the Glacial Deltas in the Lower 

 Part of the Delaware and Susquehanna 

 Rivers. ' Mr. Cresson's finding of a paleo- 

 lithic implement in a deposit correlated to 

 the Columbia deposit need not be received 

 with incredulity, as " this would not imply 

 an antiquity more than two or three thou- 

 sand years greater than that which is im- 

 plied in the genuineness of the Trenton de- 

 posit." 



Dr. W. A. Phillips gave a richly illus- 

 trated paper on the ' Aboriginal Quarries 



and Shops at Mill Creek, Union County, 

 Illinois.' A paper was read from Dr. 

 Robert Steiner on a ' Prehistoric Settle- 

 ment, Big Kiokee Creek, Columbia County, 

 Georgia,' with an account of numerous 

 finds. Dr. Charles Slocum brought for- 

 ward evidence showing the existence of 

 prehistoric man in the Maumee River 

 Basin. 



Dr. Steiner also seni; a paper on ' Allan 

 Stevenson's Trance.' Professor McGee 

 read a paper on the ' Cherokee River Cult,' 

 by James Mooney. An account of ' In- 

 struction in Anthropology in Europe and 

 America,' was given by Dr. G. G. MacCurdy. 

 Charles K. Wead gave an account of the 

 ' Natural Diatomic Scale.' 



The psychological side of anthropology 

 was represented in the report and paper by 

 Professor Cattell above referred to. 



A paper, illustrated by lantern diagrams, 

 was given on the results of ' Researches 

 in Experimental Phonetics,' wherein the 

 curves of the sound-waves in certain vowels 

 and diphthongs had been carefully meas- 

 ured. ' The Inadequacy of the Present 

 Tests for Color-blindness ' pointed out the 

 fact that the wool-test, in spite of its uni- 

 versal use in American railways, was not 

 adequate to eliminate color-blind persons 

 from posts where that defect is dangerous ; 

 a new color-sense tester was exhibited. In 

 a paper on ' Observations on After-images 

 and Cerebral Light,' several new observa- 

 tions were given as to the results of dis- 

 placing the eyeballs in the effect of retinal 

 (cerebral) after-images, Purkinje's figures 

 and the image of the yellow spot. In ob- 

 servations on the ' Economy of Sleep ' var- 

 ious methods of lengthening sleep were 

 discussed. These four papers were by Dr. 

 E. W. Scripture. 



The Columbus meeting was a pleasant 

 and successful one. Over 300 persons were 

 registered for the general Association. The 

 attendance in Section H ran as high as a 



