New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-22
CHANGES PROPOSED.

2s and that forty had been elected Fellows for
eminent services to science
CHANGES PROPOSED.
1t was announced at the meeting that the Royal
Society had decided to prepare general index
Changes in the constitution OF the association were
proposed which would add social science to the
scope of the section economic science and stalls
tics, and separate the section on geology from
geography. creating separate section for the latter
These will be acted upon next year The committee
on Grants set apart from the fund for research 81"
for a table in the Biological Laboratory, at "ood
Holl Mass, 500 to Professors Morley and Rogers
for inferental comparisons and 500 to Dr. Boas TO
continue and complete anthropometric measurements
Of Indians. The time and place for the next meet
ing were referred TO a committee consisting OF fro
fessors Joseph lie Conte. f. W. putnam. d. ieii"
Smith G. G. Hubbard and J. w. Powell ana the
president 1t was the agreement OF the mee""s ~
hold the next session In San Francisco IL the ar
rangements can be completed. An excurslo" d. ''''
close OF the present session to Inc "h''e -0'l
.ains under the auspices OF the American VI 80
Association was announced The trip VIII las, II o'"
August q TO g. and the cost Will not exceed ~
Two of the sections. those on zoology anu c"et"-
,s,rv did not meet yesterday. their Work pe'"s
done No papers read before the secuoh ."
mathematics and astronomy 90
The following papers were presented 10 'he 81
ton on anthropoogy: ,
"Sora Indian Fishing Stations Upon Long
savapsrv" Frank II. Cushing "Corean Cnldreh
Canes 4" s,ewar, Culln: "Survva:s OF the Eary
Dwarf Races in the New World. X Z. ha.lpui 'on'
'Tbe Ideal Museum" Thomas wilson Hoquo"
Mlgrations," W. NJ Beauchamp; "Crania OF we
Nec,onoIls % Ancon Peru" George ~ Dorsey
.rsa ceremonial Year OF the Maya Codex Corte-
alan. NJ II. savil.e; Exhibition Of an Abor!gina.
MEXICAN Manuscript OF Maguey Paper VI. H.
sayue: THE Origin OF Mineral Words. H. ~
Conant; Notes on the Mummy corn OF Fe'u' r.
Lewis s,urtevant; Brief Remarks Upon an Al
tempt TO Interpret Plates NOS 20 anu :" "a '''' "
den Co1ex." II. T. Cresson
In hs nsoer Mr. Tooker gave the derivation and
meaning ~ a number Of Indian names. he SAID
that suggamuck called Birch Creek meant
.he FISHING pace" for bass. from "sugg Dig APP
piled 10 the fish, and "amuck" pace OF fishing. Inc
Indian name OF Shelter Island is Misunderstanding
ouazuw-amuck their fishing place at the sheiter
Island"
GAMES OF COREAN CHILDREN.
In "Corean Games" Mr.. Culin described a
number OF toys and then spoke Of the common
Corean games such as the Tug Of War" In which
villagers onnose villagers at either end OF rope OF
straw the archery contest the game win slaves
and others The Chinese names OF large NUMBER
Of the childrens games indicate their chinese origin
Inconcusion he said the undyng hatred OF japan
and the Japanese which permeated Corea survival
OF feelings engendered by crue war an1 IN nv
were better illustrated than IN ihe c
'o-ron ka got" l. e.. barbarian head-cuttng."
In the Corean language barbarian was announcer
name for Japanese. according to MI. GUM. ...a
The subject OF THE Ideal Museum was treated
BY Mr. Wilson In an interesting manner lroquQis
Nsraon" was the subject OF brief paper Dy the
Rev Dr. Beauchamp Frank Hamilton CUSHING
ethnologis for the Bureau OF Amerca can h C
NWashington In his paper entitled Sait anu osE ,,
ages" referred TO the universal liking for sal,
Among the Indians Of North America ca, hi 1e
down from their inaccessible dwellings 10 I'VE il"
villages more than their desire for salt - .Ao
Halfh urtnp cad al
Dwarf races of the New World. ,
The papers read before the section on geoi,osSS
we're The Geological Atlas Folios Issued by uniie n
States Geological Survey" r. II. Newell; The NH
erals OF Paterson. Upper Montclar ana the an Az
sades. N. j." Joseph H. Hunt; on the Axe 1i ae
81 Clair Limestone Of Arkansas s. A. Wliia Iln,
tennai to the Columbian Exposition" Jed Hotcn.
kiss. and ''Oil and Gas In Kansas. Erasmus nns,
Haworth. Professor u. X. Emerson, OF Amherst,
exhibited some rare and interesting glacial bouders
from the carboniferous strata or India
sented upon THE Attributes OF Matter" l. o va
Powell: "DeAnton OF Motion" j. w, Powell. ana
Device for Comparing Natural with Tempereo
Musical Scales Morris Loeb ~ ID Honges i rX,
conductor which he thought "discounted' the oin-
The section in botany had these topics presented
Products OF Metamorphosis and Monstrosntie es,,
eria" Elizabeth G. Britton; Evidence as 70 the
Former Existence of Large Trees on Nantucke,
Island Burt c. Wilder; Notes on the Primary
Foliage and the Leaf-Scars In Pinus rigda, ~ l..
Halstsd; "A Hybrid Among the Mosses =, p Eliza
Ryrond u. Halsted: ION Torreya as a Generic
Name" n. L. Britton; "some notes on the Genus