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V. Immediate Procedure. 



With a view to proceeding as financial and other conditions may 

 allow, on the lines now suggested, your Committee makes the fol- 

 lowing recommendations in regard to immediate procedure : 



(i) It is urgent that a permanent Advisory Committee be con- 

 stituted, as already indicated. 



(2) An appropriation of $5,000 is recommended for the prelim- 

 inary work of a bureau of Psychophysical Tests and Measurements ; to 

 extend and apply the work already done (by a committee of the 

 American Psychological Association and by private individuals) prin- 

 cipally upon university students. The procedure should be left to 

 the Advisor^' Committee on Psychology'. 



(3) An appropriation — jointly with Zoology — for the stud}- of 

 animals. Immediate procedure is strongl}^ recommended, a joint 

 recommendation being secured from the Committees on Zoology and 

 Psj'chology. 



(4) Special grants as per report on specific applications. 



We present herewith, in support of the general lines of our 

 recommendation, copies of letters giving the views of certain 

 psychologists — themselves representative men, who also represent 

 institutions having important psychological departments. 



These letters were sent to your Committee in response to the 

 chairman's request, with which in each case a list of suggested 

 undertakings was inclosed. A copy of this list is also appended. 

 These letters give the judgment of leading authorities as to the 

 relative availability of the undertakings upon which the Carnegie 

 Institution might enter in this department. It will be seen that 

 the opinions expressed are in the main coincident with the recom- 

 mendations made in this report, and also that such a scheme as 

 that now suggested is, in their opinion, not at all in conflict with 

 the interests of their university departments. More than that, in 

 their opinion, the institution of a central estabhshment for psycho- 

 logical work in Washington will help and stimulate, rather than 

 compete with and discourage, the psychological work now being 

 done in the universities. 



Respectfully submitted. 



J. Mark Baldwin, Chairman. 



October 31, 1902. 



