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 ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES 2OI

Breasted was chosen to serve three years as a member-at-large. Dr. Clark Wissler was elected Chairman of the Division. Dr. Wissler will be in Washington after September 1st.

DRS. WISSLER, Tozzer, and Kroeber, expect to attend, during August, the scientific conferences in Honolulu during which work among the Polynesians will be discussed and planned.

MR. RALPH LINTON and Mr. Edward S. Handy sailed in June to begin ethnological and archaeological work in the Marquesas islands.

MR. E. W. GIFFORD and Mr. McKern are also to undertake work in Polynesia. Mr. Gifford has been granted a leave of absence for the purpose by the University of California.

DR. LESLIE SPIER has been appointed Associate Curator of the Museum of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Cali- fornia. The appointment is a temporary one. Dr. Spier is to take up the work of Mr. Gifford during the latter's leave of absence.

AT the Commencement of Columbia University, June 2, three higher degrees were given in anthropology. Miss Gladys A. Reichard and Miss Erna C. Gunther received the degree of A.M., and Leslie Spier that of Ph.D. Dr. Spier's thesis is entitled "The Sun Dance of the Plains Indians." It will appear in the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History.

MR. WM. CHURCHILL, the well-known student of Polynesian linguis- tics and ethnology, died in Washington, D. C., June 9, 1920. Mr. Churchill was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 5, 1859. He graduated from Yale University in 1882. Many years of his life were spent in the Pacific where he held consular appointments. Since 1915 he had been connected. with Carnegie Institution.

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