XI* It was with the view o t bringing together the many 
devotees of this great branch of research that the Section of 
Anthropology was organised and the px^egraia formula ted- and the 
results have justified the most expectation*. * Joint 
sessions were arranged with five kindred organisations whose 
activities come w .i.thir Uu; field of anthropology , and the papers 
and dlsetn aions had a wide range* The body of students of the 
science thus brought together is soli? voc to have exceeded in 
number and importance any previou. assemblage of its kind on tl is 
s .1 d e o f th e /• 1 1 a rile at le a s t • 
'‘ecev't-.or i^y the papers presented and, discussed - 162 in 
number - touch upon but a limited number of the salient features 
of the- extensive and much diversified subject-matter* Chief 
attention was given to the results of recent researches in the 
ram American republics - studies relating to man himself as the 
rort Important biologic unit, to the living stocks and tribes 
a.uu thwir extremely varied cultures , and to tUe vast body of 
