Archeology and Anthropology. 847 
ARCHAOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. 
_ The American Association for the Advancement of Science held 
its thirty-seventh annual meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, August 15th 
to 21st, 1888. The meetings were held in the Central High School, 
which, though some distance from the hotels, had good street-car 
communications. The building was admirably suited to the needs 
of the Association. The rooms were ample both in number and 
size, while the auditorium, large enough for all general meetings, 
could be darkened for afternoon lectures with lantern views. 
The citizens of Cleveland took great interest in the meetings and 
the local committee made every arrangement possible for the comfort 
and convenience of visitors. The ladies in charge of entertainments, 
receptions, etc., devoted themselves to these duties during the entire 
week and wer eminently successful in everything they undertook. 
Lunch was provided daily in the basement of the building. Thurs- 
day afternoon was devoted to receptions given by the citizens at 
their homes, and some of the magnificent and luxurious residences 
on Euclid Avenue were thrown open and the members of the 
Association hospitably received. 
SECTION 4.—ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Dr. C. C. Abbott, of Trenton, N. J., was president of this section, 
with Dr. Frank Baker, of Washington, D. C., secretary. The 
meetings were well attended and much interest was shown in the 
proceedings. The section was kept busy with the reading of the 
thirty-two papers and their consequent discussion, closing only late 
im the afternoon of the last day. The session of nesday, 
August 15th, opening day, was devoted to the presidential address, 
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Trenton, N. J., by himself; at Little Falls, Minnesota, by Miss 
Franc E. Babbitt in 1875 ; and in the Valley of the Little Miami 
at Loveland, Ohio, by Dr. C. F. Metz in 1886, and the continuation 
thereof down to the present summer by himself and Mr. Wilson. The 
finding of the obsidian spear point by Prof. W. J. McGee in the 
Dao aiy deposits of Lake Lahontan, Nevada, was also noticed. 
e concluded from the evidence, first, that paleolithic man did not 
me extinct, and second, that his descendants attained an advanced 
In- bis department is edited by Thomas Wilson, Esq., Smithsonian 
ustitution, Washington, D. C. 
