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ogy, when that is established, your Committee deems it very im- 

 portant that there should be a permanent Advisory Committee asso- 

 ciated with the Carnegie Institution for Psychological science in its 

 broadest definition. Such a committee would be a medium of com- 

 munication between the Board of Trustees and the officers of the 

 Psychological Department. The principal function of this Commit- 

 tee would be to give, in all matters concerning psychology, expert 

 judgment and advice. It would pass upon all proposals of a specific 

 kind which come before the Trustees. It would be competent to 

 take the initiative in making recommendations as to new undertak- 

 ings which the condition of the science from time to time seemed to 

 render advisable. It would judge as to the qualifications of partic- 

 ular beneficiaries of the funds of the Institution, make recommen- 

 dations of grants, and suggest appointments in connection with the 

 staff. 



It should be charged to find the exceptional man and suggest ways 

 in which he may be profitably assisted. In view of these functions, 

 exercised with reference to the entire body of researches in psy- 

 chology, the chairman of this Committee should be as broad and tol- 

 erant an expert psychologist as can be secured, rather than one 

 versed only in some one branch of the subject. At the same time 

 the Committee should be numerically small. The chairman may 

 also be responsible Director of the Department. 



The chairman should also represent the Committee in conference 

 with representatives of the Board, and also of the advisory com- 

 mittees in the other sciences, so far as such may be constituted. 

 This latter form of conference, namely, among the chairmen of the 

 different committees, seems to us to be of great importance. By 

 such conference the different departments of science would be kept 

 in cooperation, and the benefits of this cooperation would accrue to 

 science generally, 



IV. Equipment and Maintenance of Psychological Depart- 

 ment, WITH Estimates of Cost. 



In order to be definite in our suggestions as to the most urgent 

 lines of procedure, your Committee recommends the following 

 scheme : 



(i) Building. — In case there is established in Washington a 

 central institution affording complete accommodations for such of 

 the sciences as find central bureaus necessary, psychology should be 

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