576 RECORD OF MEETINGS OF THE 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 



February 13, 1905. 



Section met at 8.15 p.m., Professor Wheeler presiding. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

 It was voted to postpone the program of the evening until 

 the March meeting, to enable the members of the Section to 

 attend a lecture by Professor Henry F. Osborn, on the "Evo- 

 lution of the Horse, " in the auditorium of the museum. 



M. A. Bigelow, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



February 27, 1905. 



Section met at 8.20 p.m., General Wilson presiding. 

 The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read 

 and approved. 



The following program was then offered : 



Maurice Fishberg, Anthropometry of the Jews of New 



York. 

 R. S. Woodworth and Anthropometric Work at the St. • 

 Frank G. Bruner, Louis Exposition. 



The Section met in conjunction with the American Ethno- 

 logical Society. 



Summary of Papers. 



Dr. Fishberg, in an interesting paper, stated that whether 

 the Jews have maintained their racial purity to the present 

 day is a question that can be examined by comparing the 

 physical type of Jew from different countries. Extensive 

 measurements of Jewish immigrants in New York from various 

 countries of Eastern Europe show that the Jewish type in those 

 countries is not Semitic, but varies in the different countries, 

 always approximating, in stature and cephalic index, to the 

 native or Christian population of the respective countries. 



