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expert. The delicacy of making any device and the scandal of 

 making a mistaken choice, and the almost greater scandal of trying 

 to advance anthropological researches in neglect of the work of the 

 psychologist, are additional reasons for the Institution to lend a 

 strong, helpful hand here. The same thing is true if we are ever 

 to have any v.'orthy results from the experimental study of our most 

 fundamental and pressing problems of the education of our public 

 schools. Again, in many cases of more private researches the 

 handling of the data obtained by some expert computer or their 

 reviev/ by some one skilled in psychological tests and measurements 

 is necessary to determine their value. 



4 In the fourth grade of importance, if not even higher up in 

 the scale, should be placed the aiding of individuals in researches 

 where the expenditure of time, talent, and money makes it diffi- 

 cult or impossible for such individuals to conduct, without aid from 

 the Institution, their researches successfully. These grants to in- 

 dividuals should, of course, be made very judiciously, and even 

 sparingly, as respects numbers. They can probably never bear any 

 large proportion to the number of requests for grants ; but in cer- 

 tain cases they will need to be generous in order to be effective ; 

 and it must be borne in mind that the true investigator does not 

 always know, by any means, just where he is coming out or what 

 point his investigation may produce. 



5. I do not favor inaugurating at present any system of fellow- 

 ships. In my judgment, the entire business of fellow.ships has been 

 quite overdone bj' our universities. In certain rather rai'e cases very 

 promising young men might perhaps be sustained in their researches, 

 either wholly or in part, by the Carnegie Institution. In general, 

 however, only a percentage of those now enjoying such assistance 

 are really worthy of encouragement for the higher purposes of even 

 university work. From the ranks of some of our younger teachers 

 I should think occsijional Fellows of the Carnegie Institution might 

 be temporarii}^ dra\%Ti off. 



6. Later on, and after these more immediate needs are met, the 

 Institution might profitably use its large resources in fostering the 

 study of animal and comparative psychology. 



7. At the same time, or perhaps earlier, if funds are available, 

 and, what is harder to secure, men who are competent, work in 

 pathological psychology and in the investigation of defective chil- 

 dren, etc. , might also be undertaken. 



In both these lines of work I think that the movements of the 



