General Mcctinfr.l 274 tApril iS, 
and South America. Tie dwelt witli sjiecial ernj)liasis upon the 
anthropological laboratory with its sections of anthropometry, 
psychology, neurology, and physical development. The communi- 
cation was illustrated with a series of lantern slides representing 
the many exhibits, and as each picture was thrown upon the 
screen. Professor Putnam gave an account of the special features 
of the exhibit. He paid a tribute to the local directors of the 
Exposition for their ready acquiescence in all his plans and par- 
ticularly for their willingness to furnish the means of carrying on 
original research, by which he was enabled not only to send 
seventy-five assistants to the various Indian tribes of America to 
make anthropological observations, but also to send expeditions 
to Central and Sotith America, and to carry on explorations in 
the Oliio and Delaware valleys. Professor Putnam stated that 
never before, in three years' time, had so much been done in 
American archaeology and ethnology and physical anthropology, 
and that the results obtained had furnished a mass of new facts 
of great importance to science. He expressed his gratitude to 
the numerous assistants who aided him in this work, and was glad 
to say that one of the results of the department of ethnology in 
the Exposition was the founding of a museum in Chicago, to 
which the archaeological and ethnological collections were trans- 
ferred, and where many other collections secured by gift or 
purchase from various exhibits in the Exposition are now being 
arranged by Dr. Franz Boas, who was chief assistant in the 
Department. 
General Meeting, April 18, 1S94. 
President W. H. Nilpjs in the chair. Thirty persons present. 
It was announced that Mrs. Eliza F. Hammond, and Messrs. 
D. D. Slade, William H. Sylvester, and Samuel F. Tower had 
been elected Corporate Members of the Society. 
Mr. N. T. Kidder for the committee to nominate officers for 
1894-95 presented a report. 
Mr. Herbert Lyon Jones spoke on the adaptations of fruits and 
seeds for the ])urpose of distribution. 
Dr. B. L. IJobinson remarked u])On the reasons, means, and 
advantages of the climbing habit among ])lants, especially tro])ical 
climbers. 
