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at Trenton. Several lantern views of the 

 bone and of the locality from which it came 

 were shown. It was moved that a vote of 

 thanks be tendered the gentlemen, the 

 Duke of Loubat and Dr. F. E. Hyde, who 

 have advanced the funds necessary for the 

 maintenance of the explorations by Mr. 

 Volk, at Trenton. 



At the meeting with the Folk-Lore So- 

 ciety on Friday morning, Section H was 

 called to order by Vice-President Wilson 

 for a short session, during which the com- 

 mittee appointed at the Columbus meeting 

 to consider the advisability of advocating 

 the introduction of the science of anthro- 

 pology into the curricula of the higher in- 

 stitutions of learning, made its report. The 

 report is given below. 



After the adjournment of the Folk-Lore 

 Society, the Section again met to hear Dr. E. 

 Solotaroff read a paper upon ' Comparative 

 Psychology.' 



The following report of Committee on In- 

 troduction of Anthropologic Teaching, W 

 J McGee, Chairman, was presented : 



To THE Chairman of the Sectional Com- 

 mittee AND Members of Section H, A. 

 A. A. S. : 



Your Committee on the Introduction of 

 Anthropologic Teaching having exchanged 

 views, chiefly through correspondence, beg 

 to submit a preliminary report, defining a 

 policy and outlining a plan for further work 

 which seem to them feasible. 



1. Your Committee are strongly of opin- 

 ion that anthropologic teaching should be 

 introduced in educational institutions of 

 higher grade as rapidly as practicable ; and 

 they are strongly of opinion also that the 

 Anthropologic Section of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science is 

 the fittest organization of national charac- 

 ter to undertake the introduction of such 

 teaching. 



2. Your Committee fully appreciate the 

 diiBculties in the way of introducing an- 

 thropology into established curricula, es- 

 pecially (a) the attendant cost to the insti- 

 stitutions, (&) the lack of definite informa- 

 tion concerning the aims and scope of the 

 science. With the view of overcoming 

 these difficulties, the Committee have been 

 led to recommend a plan for acquainting 

 educational institutions with the methods 

 and purpose of anthropology at a minimum 

 cost, with the expectation that the interest 

 thereby developed may lead to adequate 

 provision for the subject in later curricula. 

 The adoption of the plan would involve 

 personal sacrifice on the part of working 

 anthropologists willing to contribute in 

 time and thought, but would seem to give 

 promise of general advancement in the sci- 

 ence. 



3. Your Committee recommend that 

 anthropologists desirous of promoting an- 

 thropologic teaching in America unite in 

 offering to deliver, before high grade uni- 

 versities and colleges in which anthropology 

 is not now taught, lectures outlining the 

 science, explaining its great interest and 

 utility, and setting forth its adaptability for 

 college teaching ; such lectures to be, at the 

 outset, gratuitous, save for suitable pro- 

 vision for traveling expenses. 



4. Your Committee recommend that, for 

 the purpose of carrying out this plan, they 

 be continued and given power to act and 

 add to their number. 



Your Committee suggest that any unex- 

 pended balance of the appropriation by the 

 Council of the A. A. A. S. for the incidental 

 expenses of the New Haven meeting of the 

 Section be allotted for the printing of a 

 suitable circular to be issued to educational 

 institutions of higher grade. 



E. W. Scripture, 



Secretary. 



