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and many of the leading anthropologists of Great Britain have made strong representations to the Registrar of the University on its behalf. An editorial on the subject accompanied by six letters from British anthropologists is contained in The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, vol. I, no. 5, pp. 257-264.

Dr. Truman Michelson of the Bureau of American Ethnology has been elected an Associate Member of the Societe des Americanistes de Paris.

AT a meeting of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council held at Harvard Union, Cambridge, Mass., December 30, 1919, Professor Franz Boas presented his resig- nation as a member of the Division. The following resolution was unanimously adopted:

That the Chairman be instructed to transmit to the Executive Board of the National Research Council the resignation of Professor Boas, with regret that the Division must lose the services of the most eminent anthropologist in America and a man of unimpeachable devotion to his ideals, and with the recommendation that Professor Boas' resignation be accepted.

IN the "Anthropological Notes" in the issue for July-September, 1919, attention is called to the coincident chewing of vegetable substances by the Peruvian Indians on the one hand, by the Melanesians on the other, in both cases with the admixture of lime. There are at least two other such coincidences to which attention has not been called, as far as I am aware. In "Melanesians and Polynesians," by Brown (Mac- millan, 1910), there is a description of trephining as practised by certain Melanesians, and the statement is made that use was made of knotted strings as mnemonic aids.

H. E. EGGERS, M. D., Univ. of Nebraska.

THE present day practical application of anthropological knowledge is seen in the recognition of Anthropology in the leadership of the new wide-spread endeavors in the Americanization field. Dr. Albert E. Jenks, Professor of Anthropology of the University of Minnesota, was elected President of the National Council of Americanization Workers at an organization meeting of Americanization Directors, Teachers, Supervisors, etc., held in Cleveland, Ohio, February 24th and 25th, at the call of United States Commissioner of Education, Philand H. Claxton.

The first national meeting of the Council will be in Minneapolis, May 31 and June I, 1920. In 1918 the University of Minnesota estab-

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