The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-29
IN SESSION
Learned Men From All Over the
Country at Columbia.
WELCOMED BY SETH LOW
Wise Men and Women Tell One Another
the Results of Their Researches and
Investigations Into Various
Fieids-Notable Gathering.

New York. Dec. 2s.-Within the halls
gathered such a body OF scientists as
has seldom been brought together in
session under one roof. Almost all the
societies for research and higher
science were represented. and the scope
of their deliberations stretched from
psychology to morphology. Each So
ciety had its meetings in a separate
hall. Those hat met were the Ameri-
can Society of N~aturalists. the Ameri-
can M~orphological society, the Asso-
citation OF American Anatomists. the
American Psychological society. the
American Physiological society. the
American Folklore society. the Society
for Plant Morphology and Psychology,
the Anthropological Section of the
American Association for the Advance
ment OF Science, the American Geologi-
cal society and the American Chemical
society.
President Seth Low of Columbia Wis
tied a number OF meetings and well
coined the delegates to Columbia's new
home. At the Anthropological Section
of the American Association for the
advancement vi 0tltIltt NItEt DdDtI6
were read: THE Indian Congress at
Omaha" by James Monro of Washing
ton. and Belief in All Power Among
the Pawnees," by Miss Alice &. Fletcher
OF Cambridge. Mass.
At the American Psychological So
ciety's annual meeting many papers
were read, one OF the most important
being by Prof. w. T.. Poster. who has
developed a method for studying the
excised heart and has made ar import
ant study of the human heart while in
action.
About $50 fellows of the American
Geological society were present during
the morning session. including Presi-
lent Stephenson, Prof. b.. X. Emerson
of Amherst: DIR. G. w. Dalton of the
Canadian geological survey: &. 1.
White, Virginia state g~eologist, and H..
l.. Fairchild of Rochester university.
There were "a papers to be read i'm this
session. Among those read to-day was
M on The Geology of Yosemite Ma
tlonal Park" by H.. w. Tanner of the
United States geological survey. At all
the other meetings many papers were
read, most OF them relating to- extreme
ly technical subjects.
In the anthropological section. Profess
sor william Holmes, head curator of
the National museum. spoke of Arch
geological Problems of California"
kidJbl - W. oNtiAs oiiNtNCi u w ~
reau OF American ethnology at Wash
ington. outlined the proposed science of
e~stheology. and Miss Cornelia Horsford
of Cambridge rea a paper on Cairns
OF Southwestern Norway"
The society adjourned to meet at the
regular meeting of the Association for
Scientific Advancement in Columbus,
Ohio. in August. 1899.
In the folklore section papers were
read by w. w. Newell. Cambridge.
Mass: Miss Alice G.. Fletcher. Cam
bridge. Mass; George b. Grinnell, New
York: Francis lie F1esch, Washington;
DR.. Earl Umholtz and DIR. Frank Boaz.
American Museum Of Natural History.
In the morphological section the fol-
lowing presented papers: G.. ii. Eigan-
mann, University OF Indiana; II. X.
Harrington, Adelbert college, Clevelasd;
L. II. ~Snowden. University of Penrsy,-
vania: G. q. Whitman. University of
Chicago, and A. +. Averlll, Yale.