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{d) Experiments which demand a large number of subjects. 

 Necessarily such an institution would not only appoint conductors 

 to assign problems and methods, but also award fellowships to 

 highly advanced young scholars, who could serve as self-observing 

 subjects of the investigations. In this respect such an institution 

 would be different from a physical or chemical institute, and dis- 

 tinct also from the two following. 



4. An institution for animal psychology. Here belong — 



{a) Experiments on such animals as by their size or habits of 

 life cannot be kept in the regular university laboratories. 



{b) Studies in heredity. " 



(<:) Experiments on animals under abnormal conditions. 



Vahiable.—^. An institution for anthropological-psychological 

 measurements and statistics. 



6. A bureau for the exchange of psychological observations in 

 the laboratories of the countrj^ (provided that no attempt is made 

 to control the various laboratories), for computing results which 

 any psychologist may send, for compiling literature, for giving in- 

 formation on literature to psychological investigators, etc. 



7. An institution for pathological psychology, working in con- 

 nection with an asylum. 



Valuable but Very Dangeroiis for the Development of the Edticational 

 Life of the Whole Coimtry. — 8. Aid to individual scholars who are 

 acknowledged to be specialists of merit, in the form of aid for in- 

 struments, assistance, printing expenses, leave of absence — all this 

 on application of the scholar. 



9. Aid for young, promising doctors of philosophy, in the form 

 of fellowships for work to be done independently of the institutions 

 to be created in Washington ; such aid to be given merely on appli- 

 cation from the academic teachers of the recipients. 



\_Dr. fames McKeen Cattell, Professor of Psychology , Columbia Univer- 

 sity, to Mr. Baldwi7i.'\ 



If the Carnegie Institution establishes laboratories in Washington, 

 I should place first a psychological laboratory for the investigation 

 of problems requiring exact methods. This laboratory might super- 

 vise — 



(a) Printing press and instrument shop in connection with the 

 other sciences. 



(J)) Bureau of computations in connection with the other sciences. 



