LADIES AND GENTLE MEN:-^'^^ custom which demands that your President address you at the time of the annual meeting-not when the Academy ie in formal session, but when seated around the hospitable board-lays upon him a difficult duty-You -expect--from-him-the best that he can pve in his scieuce; and still what he gives should be appropriate to the hour, when in pleasant personal intercourse thoughts find expression as they arise, and the stimulated imagination carries us away to more daring flights-than those we venture on when our thoughts are given to serious work.Permit me, therefore, to join in the imaginative mood and to lay aside the scruples and doubts of the study and to tell you how in my dreams the stones that we are shaping with arduous labor, and that may in time form a solid structure, b u t none of which 18 finished as get, seem to fit together; and let me sketch before your eyes the airy picture of a history of the Americm-race as it appears before me in dim outlines.
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Franz Boas (1912) studied this question.