276 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



SECTION OF ANTHEOPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY 



1 May, 1916 



The Section met in conjunction with the New York Branch of the 

 American Psychological Association at Columbia University. 

 The following program was presented : 



Herbert W. Rogers, Some Emperical, Tests in A^ocational 



Guidance and Selection.* 



Christine Ladd-Franklin, The Visibility op the Neeve Cuerent. 



T. T. Lew, Taboos in China,* 



Samuel A. Tannenbaum, How Psychoanalysis Cures Nervous- 

 ness.* 



The Section then adjourned. 



E. H. Lowie^ 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY 



8 May, 1916 



Section met at 8 :15 p. m., Vice-President H. von W. Schulte presid- 

 ing. 



The following program was presented : 



George H. Huntington, The I?elation of tpie Lymphatic and 



H^MAL Channels in the Vascular Sys- 

 tem or THE Vertebrates. 



W. C. Clark, Some Phases op Bone Groavth in the 



Adult. 



Summary op Paper 



Professor Huntington stated that tlie development of the thoracic 

 ducts in all three amniote classes follows precisely the same main funda- 

 mental principle, viz., the formation of lymphatic channels by confluence 

 of numerous originally separate intercellular mesenchymal clefts and 

 spaces. 



The reptile presents this genetic process in its simplest form, in a region 

 in which systemic venous development is reduced to a minimum. In 



* Abstracts published in Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XIII, 1916, pp. 662-665. 



