A'ECOA'DS. 491 



Dr. Martin summarized the more important papers in geology 



given at the 1898 meeting of the Association, and particularly 



the papers devoted to glacial phenomena. 



Section adjourned at 9:45. 



G. F. KuNz, 



Secretarj'. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



November 28, 1898. 



Section met at 8 P. M., with President Osborn and the Sec- 

 retary in charge of the meeting. 



The following paper was read by title : A Paleozoic Ter- 

 RANE Beneath the Cambrian, by Geo. F. Matthew, of St. 

 John, N. B. 



The first paper of the evening was by Dr. Geo. V. N. Dear- 

 born, entitled, The Emotion of Joy. Brief summary of a 

 monograph in experimental and descriptive physiological psy- 

 chology. " Somewhat in proportion to its pleasantness, an 

 emotional extramotion of * expression ' consists in general ex- 

 pansiveness and outwardly in contraction of the extensor mus- 

 cles ; this is, in particular, true of the smile and laugh of joy, 

 the muscles concerned in which, from the early foetal cervical 

 flexion are properly of the extensor sort." Four series of ex- 

 periments (nearly 3,500 in number), on the hands, head, arm, 

 and leg, prove the correlation between pleasantness and organic 

 sensation. The regular occurrence of habitual inhibitions, due 

 to the complex conditions of civilized social development, sup- 

 plies the apparent deficiency of the kina^sthetic theory in case 

 of the emotions of man. Human " emotions " are not so in 

 the biologic sense, but rather concrete expressions of the affec- 

 tive social consciousness at present quite indefinite. 



The second paper of the evening was by Mr. E. G. Dexter, 

 entitled The Influence of the Weather on Mental Activ- 

 ities OF Children, and was devoted to the particular study of 

 the apparent influence of the weather on the children of Den- 



