1034 The American Naturalist. [November, 
Tue INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY.—August 28- 
September 2.—Local Committee of Organization—F. W. Putnam, 
Chairman, C. Staniland Wake, Secretary, Edward E. Ayer, James W. 
Ellsworth, H. W. Beckwith, Frederick Starr, Stephen D. Peet. Execu- 
tive Committee.—Daniel G. Brinton, President, Franz Boas, Secretary, 
W. H. Holmes, Representative of American Association Adv. Science, 
W. W. Newell, Representative of American Folk-Lore Society, Otis 
T. Mason, Representative of Anthropological Society of Washington, 
Alice C. Fletcher, Representative of the Women’s Anthropological 
Society, Louis A. Lagarde, Representative of United States Army 
Medieal Museum, and the Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections 
of the Congress. 
August 28.— A ddresses of Welcome by the President of the World's 
Congress Auxiliary and others. Reponses in behalf of different Con- 
gresses and countries. Address by the President of the Congress, Dr. 
Daniel G. Brinton. Subject: The Nation as an Element in Anthro- 
pology. Physical Anthropology of North America, Franz Boas Anthro- 
pometry of North American School Children, Gerald M. West. Crania 
from Cuban Caves, Carlos de la Torre. Trepanning in Ancient Peru, 
Manuel A. Muñiz. On the Anthropological Laboratories of the 
Department of Ethnology at the epis s Columbian Exposition, Franz 
Boas, H. H. Donaldson, Joseph Jastro 
. August 29.— The Discovery ofan Artificially-Flaked Flint Specimen 
in the Gravels of San Isidro, Spain, H. C. Mercer. The Aboriginal 
American Mechanics, Otis T. Mason. A Résumé of Archsological 
Investigations in the Champlain Valley, G. H. Perkins. Anthropo- 
logical Work at the University of Michigan, Harlan I. Smith. The 
Mexican Calendar System, Mrs. Zelia Nuttall. On the Antiquity of 
the Civilization of Peru, Emilio Montes. Cave Dwellers of the Sierra 
Madre, Carl Lumholtz. Orientation, A. L. Lewis. The Tumuli of 
Hampshire as a Central Group of Mounds in South Britain, J. S. 
Phené. The Collection of Games in the Anthropological building, 
Stewart Culin, J. G. Bourke, Frank Cushin 
August 30.— Alleged Evidences of Ancient heteel Between America 
and Other Continents, Daniel G. Brinton. Bark Cloth: The Primi- 
tive Textile, Walter Hough. Love Songs among the Omahas, Miss 
Alice C. Fletcher. Primitive Seales and Rhythms, J. Comfort Fill- 
more. A Peculiar Observance of the Quichua Indians of Peru, G. A. 
. Dorsey. Customs among Natives of East Africa, Mrs. M. French 
Sheldon. Secret Societies among the Wild Tribes, Stephen D. Peet. 
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