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can Association supported the proposition, and, following the report 
of its committee, at the annual meeting of the Association in Boston, 
in 1898, voted its approval of establishing the new journal. The 
coöperation of the Washington Anthropological Society was secured, 
and it was decided to discontinue the old journal and allow the new, 
more efficient periodical to take its place. By almost common con- 
sent of the subscribers, the new journal was to retain the name of 
the old one. 
As to the aims of the new American Anthropologist, we cannot do 
better than quote its editors: “ The editors aim to make the journal 
a medium of communication between students of all branches of an- 
thropology. The contents will embrace (1) high grade papers per- 
taining to all parts of the domain of anthropology, the technical 
papers to be limited in number and length; (2) briefer contributions 
on anthropologic subjects, including discussion and correspondence ; 
(3) reviews of anthropologic literature ; (4) a current bibliography 
of anthropology; and (5) minor notes and news.” The purpose of 
the American Anthropologist will be “to disseminate as widely as 
practicable, for the use of scholars and of students, the results of 
` anthropologic investigations.” 
The Editorial Board of the new journal is composed of Messrs. 
Frank Baker, W. H. Holmes, and J. W. Powell, Washington; Franz 
Boas, New York ; Daniel G. Brinton, Philadelphia; F. W. Putnam 
and Miss Alice C. Fletcher, Cambridge; Geo. A. Dorsey, Chicago ; 
and Geo. M. Dawson, Ottawa, with F. W. Hodge, of Washington, as 
the managing editor and secretary. 
It is evident that the establishing of this new, more efficient journal 
marks a real progress in American anthropology. 
