Franz Boas and the Founding of the American Anthropological Association1
A. I. Hallowell and Murray G. Murphey, of the Anthropology and American Civilization Departments of the University of Pennsylvania, were kind enough to read the completed manuscript of this paper. Their comments and criticisms are gratefully acknowledged. I would also like to express my appreciation to Betty Meggers of the United States National Museum in Washington, who showed me the minutes of the Anthropological Society of Washington; Margaret Blaker of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, for her assistance in making available to me the McGee correspondence contained in the archives of that institution; Richard Shryock and Gertrude Hess of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia for their assistance, and the Society for permission to quote from the Boas correspondence.
