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Zalambdodont, apparently somewhat more primitive than any now living, 

 and carried back the record for this group to the basal Eocene. The 

 skull and dentition have been prepared with great skill by Mr. A. E. 

 Anderson. 



The Section then adjourned. AVilliam K. Gregory, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF ANTHEOPOLOGY AXD PSYCHOLOGY 



27 January, 1913 



With the consent of the Council of the New York Academy of Sci- 

 ences, the American Ethnological Society invited Professors MacCurdy, 

 Keller, Bishop, Huntington and Bowman, all of Yale University, to at- 

 tend a joint meeting of the Society and the Section of Anthropology and 

 Psycholog}', for the purpose of exchanging views on the problem of the 

 influence of geographical environment on human culture. Owing to the 

 number of papers offered, an afternoon meeting was arranged for in addi- 

 tion to the customary evening session. General James Grant Wilson pre- 

 siding at the former and Professor Franz Boas at the latter. 



The following programme was offered : 



Afternoon Session 



A. G. Keller, Natural Sciences as the Basis of the Social 

 Sciences. 



The reading of this paper was followed by a lecture, illustrated with 

 lantern slides, 



George Grant MacCurdy, Pre-neolithic Environment in Europe. 



Evening Session 



Avard L. Bishop, Pace Characteristics Versus Natural 



Environment in Commercial Success. 



Ellsworth Huntington, Climatic Influences in Human Activ- 

 ity. 



Isaiah Bowman, The Physiographic Environment of the 



Machiganga Indians of Peru. 



Finally. Dr. Wissler, as the representative of the American Ethno- 

 logical Society, dealt with the following subject : 



Clark Wissler, Culture and Environment. 



The Section then adjourned. R. H. Lowie, 



Secretary. 



