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V. Immediate Procedure. 



With a view to proceeding as financial and other conditions may 

 allow, on the lines now suggested, your Committee makes the fol- 

 lowing recommendations in regard to immediate procedure : 



(i) It is urgent that a permanent Advisory Committee be con- 

 stituted,, as already indicated. 



(2) An appropriation of ^5,000 is recommended for the prelim- 

 inary work of a bureau of Psychophysical Tests and Measurements ; to 

 extend and apply the work already done (by a committee of the 

 American Psychological Association and hy private individuals) prin- 

 cipally upon universil)- students. The procedure should be left to 

 the Advisory- Committee on Psychology. 



(3) An appropriation — ^jointly with Zoology — for the stud}"- of 

 animals. Immediate procedure is strongly recommended, a joint 

 recom-mendation being secured from the Committees on Zoology and 

 Psychology. 



(4) Special grants as per report on specific applications. 



We present herev»'ith, in support of the general lines of our 

 recommendation, copies of letters gi'^'irig the views of certain 

 ps3'chologists — themselves representative men, who also represent 

 institutions having important psychological departments. 



These letters were sent to your Committee in response to the 

 chairman's request, with which in each case a list of suggested 

 undertakings was inclosed. A copy of this list is also appended. 

 These letters give the judgment of leading authorities as to the 

 relative availability of the undertakings upon which tlie Carnegie 

 Institution might enter in this department. It will be seen that 

 the opinions expressed are in the main coincident with the recom- 

 mendations made in this report, and also that such a scheme as 

 that now suggested is, in their opinion, not at all in conflict with 

 the interests of their imiversity departments. More than that, in 

 their opinion, the institution of a central establishment for psycho- 

 logical work in Washington will help and stimulate, rather than 

 compete with and discourage, the psychological work now being 

 done in the universities. 



Respectfully submitted. 



■J. M vRK Baldwin, Ckairman, 



October 31, 1903. 



