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points to the fact that che Cree once possessed exogamous gentes with descent in the male 
line. How unnecessary this hypothesis is, is shown in this paper. 
4 See Amer. Anthrop., New York, N. S., 17, 329-340; Ibid., 588-591; per contra, Ibid., 
175-177. 
^ Smithsofiian Contributions to Knowledge, No. 218, p. 217. 
^ According to my unpublished information. 
^ Smithsonian Inst., Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., 28, 221-290b. 
8 We are confirmed in this belief by the fact taat the Atsina, a member of a linguistically 
divergent major group of Algonquain tribes, organized in non-totemic exogamous gentes 
with descent in the male line employ the same words for 'my son' and 'my daughter' as 
they do for for 'my brother's son' and ' my brother's daughter' respectively, with male speaker 
in the latter cases. The word for 'my daughter' is the common Algonquian one; that for 
'my son' apparently is not old. 
REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
Prepared by the Home Secretary 
The sessions of the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences 
were held in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C, on 
April 17, 18, and 19, 1916. 
Seventy-two members were present as follows: Messrs. C. G. Abbot, Allen, 
Ames, Becker, Boltwood, Britton, Bumstead, D. H. Campbell, Cannon, Cat- 
tell, W. B. Clark, F. W. Clarke, F. M. Clarke, Comstock, Conklin, Coulter, 
Cross, Dall, Davenport, Davis, Day, Donaldson, Fewkes, Flexner, Hague, 
Hale, E. H. Hall, Harper, Hayford, Hillebrand, Holmes, Howell, Iddings, 
Jennings, Leuschner, LiUie, Loeb, Lusk, Mall, Meltzer, Mendel, Merriam, 
Merritt, Milliken, More, Morley, H. N. Morse, Moulton, E. L. Nichols, A. A. 
Noyes, Parker, Pickering, Pupin, Ransome, Reid, Remsen, Rosa, Schuchert, 
Scott, E. F. Smith, Story, Van Hise, Van Vleck, Walcott, Webster, Welch 
Wheeler, David White, H. S. White, Wilson, R. W. Wood, Woodward. 
BUSINESS SESSIONS 
The President announced the following deaths since the last Annual Meet- 
ing of the Academy: 
John Ulric Nef, died August 13, 1915, elected in 1904. 
Frederick Ward Putnam, died August 18, 1915, elected in 1885. 
Arthur W. Wright, died December 19, 1915, elected in 1881. 
Eugene W. Hilgard, died January 8, 1916, elected in 1872. 
Paul Ehrlich, foreign associate, died August 20, 1915. 
reports from officers of the academy 
The reports of the President and Treasurer for the year 1915 were presented 
to the Academy in printed form as transmitted to the Senate of the United 
States by the President of the Academy. 
The report of the Home Secretary was presented as follows: 
