2l8 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 



Institution should be very slow and cautious, except in so far as they 

 can assist in such work as it falls under the heads of the proper 

 functions of the Institution, as enumerated above. 



8. Printing and publishing the results of research and the reports 

 of commissions and committees should, I think, be done by the press 

 of the Carnegie Institution, if it is deemed wise to establish such a 

 press. I should favor its establishment. 



9. Occasionally, perhaps, but only very rarely, should the Institu- 

 tion assist individuals in publishing books which are not prepared as 

 part of the Institution's work. 



10. I do not favor the plan of having the Carnegie Institution 

 compile or assist in compiling a bibliography of psychology. 



In closing I wish, as the head of the department of ps5^chology in 

 Yale University and in behalf of my colleagues, to express our grate- 

 ful appreciation of the magnificent gift of the founder of the Carnegie 

 Institution, our hearty sj^mpathy with his general purposes, and our 

 willingness to cooperate in carrying to success these purposes, so far 

 as fidelity to the university renders such cooperation possible. 



\^Dr. Hugo Mimsterberg, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University , 



to Mr. Baldzvin.'\ 



Propositions for the Use of the Carnegie Funds in the 



Interest of PsychoivOgy. 



(Nos. 1-7 to be Established in Washington.) 



Most Vahiable. — i. A subsidized printing establishment for mono- 

 graphs in psychology and other sciences, which would print and 

 prepare plates on a commercial basis, for any customer, at a rate 

 comparable to that ruling in Germany or France. 



2. A subsidized mechanical establishment for the construction of 

 psychological and other instruments at European rates of expense. 



Very Valuable. — 3. An institution for psychological experiments 

 on men, with special emphasis on such problems as can not be easily 

 studied in the usual university laboratories. Here belong — 



(a) Experiments on the influence of abnormal conditions which 

 as such are undesirable in an educational institution. 



(3) Experiments which demand more time than the university 

 students can afford to give. 



(<:) Experiments which need a more elaborate equipment than 

 the universities can afford. 



