NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 593 



S. A. Mitchell, Purposes and Plans of the Solar Eclipse 



Expeditions of August, 1905. 

 C. C. Trowbridge, Variations in the Duration of the After- 

 glow, Produced by Changes of Poten- 

 tial, and Frequency of Oscillation of 

 the Discharge. 

 No abstracts of these papers have been received. 



Charles C. Trowbridge, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



April 26, 1905-. 



Section met at 8.15 p.m., Vice-President Woodbridge presiding. 

 The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read 

 and approved. 



The following program was then offered : 



Berthold Laufer, The Relation of China to the Philippine 



Islands. 

 William Jones, The Religious Conception of the Manitou 



of the Central Algonkins. 

 George H. Pepper, Symbolic Designs on the Indian Textiles 



of the Southwest. 

 Harlan I. Smith, Stone Sculptures and Implements from 



the Lower Columbia Valley. 



The Section met in conjunction with the American Ethno- 

 logical Society. 



No abstracts of these papers have been received. 



R. S. Woodworth, 



Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



May i, 1905. 



The Academy met at 8.15 p.m., at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, President Kemp presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

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