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Concerning recollections in dreams, we find that few persons see 

 themselves as children in dreams, and when they do the subject of 

 the dream is of a time posterior to the earliest recollection. 



The results of our investigation, one of the first to have been 

 made, so far as we know, are far from complete, and give no definite 

 information concerning the why of the phenomena; but they indi- 

 cate some of the points concerning which the inquiry can be pur- 

 sued with profit, and will enable us to frame our next set of ques- 

 tions more systematically and with more intelligence. We shall be 

 glad to receive observations on the subject from all persons who may 

 choose to communicate them to M. V. Henri, Laboratory of Physio- 

 logical Psychology, Sorbonne, Paris. — Translated for the Popular 

 Science Monthly from UAnnce Psychologique. 



SKETCH OF KUSSELL H. CHITTEE'DEK 



IiT his address at the celebration of the semicentennial of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, President Daniel 

 C. Oilman spoke of physiological chemistry as one of the latest addi- 

 tions to the subjects taught there and as a department in which the 

 school had risen to the foremost place. " Nowhere else in this 

 country," said the speaker, " not in many European laboratories, has 

 such work been attempted and accomplished as is now in progress on 

 Hillhouse Avenue, unobserved, no doubt, by those who daily pass 

 the laboratory door, but watched with welcoming anticipation wher- 

 ever physiology and medicine are prosecuted in the modern spirit of 

 research." The creator and master mind of this establishment is 

 Russell Henry Chittenden, professor of physiological chemistry. 



Professor Chittenden is a descendant of William Chittenden, 

 who came to America from the parish of Cranbrook, Kent, England, 

 in 1639, and settled in what is now known as Guilford, Connecticut. 

 Both his paternal and maternal grandfathers fought in the Revolu- 

 tionary War. He is a son of Horace H. Chittenden, and was born in 

 New Haven, Connecticut, February 18, 1856. 



He received his primary education in the public schools of New 

 Haven, and later entered the private school of Mr. French, where 

 he was fitted for college. Even at this time his aptitude for teaching 

 was so developed that he was able to defray his expenses in the school 

 by giving instruction to the younger pupils in the rudiments of Latin 

 and Greek and in mathematics. His original intention had been to 

 pursue classical studies, but a growing fondness for natural science 

 with a leaning toward medicine as a profession led to his entering the 



