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and checkerboard screens for photo-color printing, and, lastly, the 

 making of bakelite or artificial amber (so-called) were explained. Many 

 fine specimens of all substances mentioned were shown. 

 The Section then adjourned. 



F. M. Pedersen, 



Secretary, 



SECTION" OP ANTHEOPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 

 25 March, 1912. 



Section met in conjunction with the American Ethnological Society 

 at 8 :15 p. m., General James Grant Wilson presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and ap- 

 proved. 



The following programme was then offered: 



Robert H. Lowie, Dr. Eadosavl jevich's Critique oe Professor 

 Boas. 



Summary oe Paper. 



Dr. Lowie stated that Dr. Eadosavljevich had misrepresented Professor 

 Boas on a number of important points. He had entirely misrepresented 

 page 32 of Professor Boas's preliminary report on "Changes in Bodily 

 Form of Descendants of Immigrants." 



The "economic" theory scoffed at by Dr. Eadosavljevich is a figment 

 of his imagination. What Professor Boas says is that the arrivals dur- 

 ing the period following the financial panic of 1893 were under-devel- 

 oped in every direction. When Dr. Eadosavljevich reproaches Professor 

 Boas for not studying the effect of American soil and financial panics- 

 on the same individuals during a period of time representing the age of 

 his subjects, he shows that he has not the faintest notion of what Boas'is- 

 discussing in connection with financial panics. 



Secondly, Eadosavljeviclr's contention that Boas's own observations do 

 not support his theory of a change of type is a most naive instance of 

 conceptual realism. The conventional classificatory divisions of head 

 forms have for Eadosavljevich an absolute biological value, and unless 

 the head forms of descendants of immigrants fall outside the conven- 

 tional class of their parents he refuses to admit a change in head form. 

 Dr. Lowie explained what statisticians and biometricians actually mean 

 by a real difference between two series. 



In the discussion which followed, several visitors asked for informa- 



