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tenths of a second. They were mis-spelt by the omission of a letter, 

 the substitution of a wrong letter, or the blurring of a letter by print- 

 ing an x over it. The object was to determine the relative influence 

 of the objective factor in the visual stimulus, and the subjective factor 

 through association and apperception. The experiments were, so far 

 as possible, carefully tabulated, and it required not a little skill (and 

 some imagination) to educe results of any decisive value. A good 

 resume of Prof. Wundt's views on apperception is given, and the 

 conclusions reached are in line with those obtained in a quite different 

 way by Dr Stout in his recent work on Analytical Psychology. 



The New Age, which was started in April, is published on the loth 

 of each month by the proprietor, 68/2 Shikdar Bagan Street, Calcutta. 

 The annual subscription is Es. 2.12. The editor is S. C. Mukho- 

 padhaya, M.A. There is some want of discrimination shown in 

 the selection of tit-bits for this " Journal of universal information," 

 but it will probably be of interest to the readers for whom it is in- 

 tended, and it interests us as an expression of the views of the educated 

 Hindu community. 



We regret to learn that with the October number the Inter- 

 national Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, for sixteen years 

 the organ of the Postal Microscopical Society, has ceased to exist from 

 lack of adequate financial support. 



The Psychological Review, vol. iv. No. 5, contains a suggestive paper 

 by Prof. Mark Baldwin on the " Psychology of Social Organisation." 

 The author is one of those who are in sympathy with biological studies, 

 and who seek to correlate the biological and the psychological factors 

 in the development of social life from its pre-social beginnings. The 

 same writer gives in the " Princeton Contributions to Psychology," re- 

 printed from the preceding number of the Psychological Review, a dis- 

 cussion of " Determinate Evolution," which should prove of interest to 

 biologists. 



In the Albuquerque Morning Democrat, Prof. Cockerell gives a report 

 on the Mexican dietary as studied by Prof. Goss. He finds that the 

 principal food of the Mexican peasant is flour, corn meal, and chili, 

 and that he is using more carbo-hydrates and less proteids than is 

 desirable. The Mexican gets most of his proteids from frijoles, and for 

 the better nourishment of the peasant Prof. Goss suggests a larger use 

 of frijoles in proportion to the flour and meal. The work is being 

 carried on at the Mesilla Park experiment station, and the object 

 aimed at is an improved dietary after examination of soils and im- 

 provement in agricultural produce. 



In the Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, vol. 

 ii. pt. 5, Colonel Duthie writes on the British abode of the Crested 

 Titmouse (Parus cristatus) ; Messrs Coates and Macnair on a banded 

 Hornblende Schist at Balhoulan Quarry, Pitlochry ; and Mr Macnair 

 on Pocks of Highland Perthshire. The president, Mr Coates, also gives 

 a presidential address entitled The Origin of Soils, with special refer- 



