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smaller glands around the mouth of the old gland begins to grow rapidly and 

 takes its place, the old gland being eventually resorbed. Thus the poison 

 gland is regenerated from a type of gland which in its early stages shows 

 the characteristics of a mucous gland. The poison gland is in fact a highly 

 modified and specialized form of mucous gland which has been differenti- 

 ated for the performance of a special function. 

 The Section then adjourned. 



M. A. BiGELOW, 



' Secretary. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



Apeil 22, 1907. 



Section met at 3 : 30 and 8 P. M., in conjunction with the New York 

 Branch of the American Psychological Association at the Psychological 

 Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



The following program was offered: 



Afternoon Session. 



R. S. Woodworth, A Method of Measuring Differences in Order 



AND ITS Use in Studying Correlation. 



F. N. Freeman, Preliminary Studies in Writing Reactions. 



F. Lyman Wells, On the Validity of Individual Judgment as 



Measured by its Departure from an Average. 



W. 0. Sudiger, The Period of Mental Reconstruction. 



Evening Session. 



Edward L. Thorndike, Experiments in Memory for Paired Associa- 

 tions, 

 H. N. Loomis, Reactions to Weights of Unequal Size. 



J. McK. Cattell, Perceptions, Images and Illusions. 



W. P. Montague, Truth as Compossibility. 



Summary of Papers. 



Professor Woodworth said in abstract: The method differs from the 

 Spearman method of counting up differences of rank in that only the rela- 



