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selves consciously assign as the best: such a difference was found by ex- 

 periment to obtain in the case of judgments of literary merit. 



Mr. Riidiger said in abstract: A carefully conducted questionary, 

 adapted to statistical treatment, showed great individual differences in the 

 suddenness and vividness of the transition from early beliefs and intel- 

 lectual attitudes to those of mature life. A large share of the individuals 

 questioned are unable to point to any period of transition, while others 

 report a perfectly defined intellectual 'conversion.' The period of this 

 change is on the average later than that of religious conversion. 



Professor Thomdike said in abstract: Twenty-five adults practised 

 from 12 to 40 hours in learning the English equivalents of German words 

 previously unknown to them. This practise did not appreciably increase 

 the number of pairs learned per hour; the result for paired associations 

 differs in this respect from that obtained by James and others in memor- 

 izing poetry and by Ebert and Meumann in memorizing nonsense sylla- 

 bles. Also the rapid loss of memory found by Ebbinghaus in case of 

 nonsense syllables did not appear; the loss within a month was very slight. 

 The correlation between the power to remember for a minute and the 

 power to remember for hours and days is surely positive and probably very 

 high. Individual differences in memory, in this test, are of approximately 

 the same magnitude as in efficiency of observation, controlled association 

 and selective thinking, and greater than in reaction time and sense dis- 

 crimination. 



Mr. Loomis said in abstract: The movements of the lifted weights, 

 being graphically recorded, showed that, on first approaching the experi- 

 ment, a person lifted the bulkier weight with the greater force; after re- 

 peated lifting this inequality decreased. 



Professor Cattell in his paper, emphasized, as important among the 

 points of differences between a sensation and an image, the weaker ten- 

 dency of the image to issue in motor reaction, and advanced a number of 

 facts going to show that this relative lack of motor tendency was valuable 

 in enabling us to distinguish images from sensations. 



Professor Montague classified and criticized the various conceptions of 

 truth as introductory to a view of 'Truth as Compossibility.' 



R. S. WOODWORTH, 



Secretary. 



