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II. Most Important Practical Undertakings. 



Making the foregoing the basis of our more detailed suggestions, 

 the two great divisions of appropriation may be these : ( i ) T?ie sup- 

 port of a central institution with the several departments eriumerated 

 below ; and (2) the establishment of a fund for grants and subsidies 

 of various sorts for the direct encouragement of psychologj' through- 

 out the country. 



These two objects can, in the opinion of your Committee, be well 

 combined in a way which will at once stimulate the psychological 

 work of all the universities and, at the same time, supplement and 

 further them. 



It is assumed without discussion that the Institution is prepared 

 to undertake grants for special researches. Your Committee is of 

 opinion frliat a sum of from $5,000 to $10,000 can be profitably 

 employed at present for such grants in psychology. This simi, 

 however, it is evident, should be extremely flexible. 



To enter into some details of recommendation as to the constitu- 

 tion of the departmient of psychology, your commiitlee suggests in 

 outline the following scheme : 



First. A department for Genetic, including Zoological and Anthro- 

 pological Psychology. In the classification which we are now pre- 

 senting, the principle of which is no less economy than utility, two 

 bureaus are here included — that for what is generally called Com- 

 parative or Zoological Psychology , and that for Anthropological Psy- 

 chology. 



The former of these aims to carry the investigation of the mind 

 or consciousness into all of its manifestations in the animal world. 

 It recognizes the great doctrine of evolution and its debt to the in- 

 terpretation of the series of animal minds in terms of their genetic 

 descent. We thus have the problem of mental viorphology as it 

 has been called by a prominent biologist — a problem which is as wide 

 in its reach and as important in its solution as the great problem of 

 morphology is to the biologist, since the rise of the modern Darwinian 

 theory. Important beginnings have been made in the investigation 

 of the animal mind ; but the hindrances which have presented them- 

 selves to individuals and institutions in this research have been 

 almost insurmountable, seeing that such investigation requires the 

 keeping of typical animals of v^arious habit, size, food, and care, 

 and the breeding of these animals for considerable periods, in order 

 that observations may be systematically carried out. Furthermore ^ 



