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Meeting of the American Psychological 

 Association. — The first regular meeting of 

 the American Psychological Association was 

 held in Philadelphia, at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, on December 27th and 28th. 

 President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark Univer- 

 sity, presided at the meetings, and the papers 

 presented gave good evidence of the variety 

 and value of the work in experimental psy- 

 chology which the laboratories of the various 

 colleges are producing. Among the general 

 papers presented, that of President Hall, 

 giving a synopsis of the history and pros- 



pects of experimental psychology in America, 

 was perhaps of widest interest. The impor- 

 tant sterjs in the development of this move- 

 ment within recent years were carefully traced, 

 and various measures of credit judiciously as- 

 signed. The effect of the entire presentation 

 was an extremely satisfactory one, showing 

 that in America perhaps more prominently 

 than elsewhere the laboratory method of in- 

 struction in psychology was becoming wide- 

 ly adopted, and that the general outlook 

 for the steady development of psychological 

 study was particularly hopeful. — Another 

 very interesting presentation was that of Prof. 

 Muensterberg, who has recently been called 

 to take charge of the graduate work in psy- 

 chology at Harvard University, and, upon 

 request of the president, addressed the asso- 

 ciation in German. While the object of his 

 remarks was to outline the problems upon 

 which his students at Cambridge were at 

 present working, the introduction of this de- 

 scription dwelt upon the general point of 

 view that directs the choice of subjects and 

 the method of investigation. Dr. Muenster- 

 berg laid stress upon the necessity, not only 

 of accurate answers to problems already 

 stated, but particularly on the discovery of 

 new problems. The difficulty here is more 

 that of asking significant questions than of 

 answering them. The question of the inves- 

 tigations themselves shows what a wide field 

 was being touched upon in various points 

 by the Harvard men — investigations of the 

 methods of localizing sounds in space, a new 

 method of determining when differences of 

 sensation are to be regarded as equal, an 

 elaborate series of experiments on the nature 

 of the association of ideas, of the daily change 

 in mental condition, of complex forms of re- 

 action in which various subjects take part at 

 the same time, and others. — Prof. Jastrow, 

 of the University of Wisconsin, gave some 

 account of what was to be attempted in the 

 laboratory of experimental psychology which 

 has been founded in connection with the 

 World's Fair. The general plan of this ex- 

 hibit includes a collection of the various 

 types of apparatus that are employed in psy- 

 chological research ; also those that are used 

 in connection with laboratory courses in psy- 

 chology. A great variety of apparatus gath- 

 ered from all portions of Europe and Amer- 

 ica will here be collected, and will cover such 



