ANTHROPOLOGY AT COLUMBUS
By \V J McGEE
The Forty-eighth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held in Columbus, Ohio, August 19-26 last. The attendance was something over three hundred and fifty, i. e., considerably above the average ; there was some- what exceptional local interest, with decided promise of beneficial influence on the scientific and educational institutions of the region ; while the papers were materially above the average in number and quality. Accordingly the meeting was a somewhat exceptionally satisfactory one. While the Section of Anthro- pology was not especially distinguished in attendance or in num- ber of papers, the position of the science was well maintained, partly through the presentation of papers and addresses of an- thropologic bearing in other sections — particularly in the Section of Social and Economic Science, which was unprecedentedly strong, and which, perhaps for the first time, came well to the fore among the sections in the interest and importance of its sessions.
An anthropologic tone was given to the entire meeting through the address of the retiring President, Prof. F. W. Putnam, under the title " A Problem in American Anthropology." This address has already been placed within reach of readers in the columns of Science (vol. x, pp. 225-236), and Nature (vol. 60, pp. 451-455), as well as in other publications. The tone was main- tained in the well-attended address of Vice-president Wilson on the " Beginnings of the Science of Prehistoric Anthropology," which is about to appear in Science.
The Section of Anthropology was organized under Vice-presi- dent Wilson by election of E. W. Scripture as secretary, W J
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