336 RECORDS. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



April 25, 1904. 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Professor F. J. E. Woodbridge, 

 presiding. The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were 

 read and approved. 



The following program was then offered : 



William Jones, Notes on an Algonkin Dialect. 



Franz Boas and Clark Wissler, On the Growth of 

 Children. 



Marshall H. Saville, Paper-making Implements of Ancient 

 Mexico. 



Waldemar Jochelson, The Grammar of the Yukaghir 

 Language. 



Summary of Papers. 



Dr. Jones presented a brief report of the method of word 

 formation of the Fox dialect. The dialect is Algonkin and 

 belongs to the group now inhabiting, or that once inhabited, the 

 country contiguous to Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake 

 Superior. Among the other dialects of the group are Ojibway, 

 Ottawa, Pottowatomie, Menomonie, Kickapoo, and Sauk. 

 Morphologically all these dialects stand in an intimate relation 

 to one another. The absolute forms of much of the vocabu- 

 lary are the same, but varying differences in the way of intona- 

 tion, articulation and grammar, make some of these dialects seem 

 somewhat removed from one another. Fox is near to Sauk 

 and Kickapoo, and farther removed from Ojibway. 



The structural peculiarities of word building, as shown in the 

 Fox, would come out much the same in the other related dia- 

 lects. The system of forming words is by composition. The 

 elements entering into composition are formatives and stems. 

 Some formatives are prefixes but most are suffixes. Some of 

 the suffixes refer to the pronoun and gender in the same form. 

 Stems fall into two general classes, initial and secondary. Initial 

 stems come first in a combination and secondary stems come 

 after. Secondary stems can be subdivided into at least two 



