RECORDS. 655 



SIXTH ANNUAL RECEPTION AND EXHIBITION. 



The Sixth Annual Reception and Exhibition was held April 

 19th and 20th at the American Museum. The affair was under 

 the charge of Professor Wm. Hallock, of Columbia University, 

 and was an unqualified success. The number of entries was 

 more limited than customary, and the exhibit thus showed more 

 clearly the progress of science during the year. The exhibition 

 remained open for two evenings and one afternoon and as usual 

 the first evening was devoted to a reception to the members of 

 the Scientific Alliance, and the second evening to a reception to 

 the interested public. 



A full account of the reception appears in Science, for April 

 28, 1899. 



Richard E. Dodge, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SUB-SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSY- 

 CHOLOGY. 



April 24, 1899. 



Section met at 8 P. M., Dr. Franz Boas presiding. 



The following program was then offered : 



E. A. Gerrard, An Objective Method of Studying Emo- 

 tional Expression. 



S. I. Franz, On After-Images. 



J. R. Swanton, The Structure of the Chinook Language. 



Stansbury Hagar, The Astronomical Cosmogony of the 

 Peruvians. 



Summary of Papers. 



Mr. Gerrard's paper presented methods for the study of emo- 

 tional expression as found in literary compositions. The relative 

 emotional values of the different parts of speech, of different 

 sentence lengths, and other variations in the kind of language 

 used and in its arrangement, were discussed and illustrated by 

 curves derived from a number of writings. 



