474 PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1892. 



groatly. The internal curoted with its piincipal braiiclies (cerebral, 

 anterior, and intermediate), Avhich are distributed among- the suborbital 

 convolutions of the insula, of the Rolandic region, and of the first sphe- 

 noidal convolutions, are larger, absolutely and relatively, in men than 

 in women. On the contrary, the vertebral carotid, which is distributed 

 among the occipital and temporo-sphenoidal lobes, are larger in women 

 than in men, and the basilar trunk, which is only a continuation of the 

 vertebral, is also larger, its mean diameter being 28"-'" in woman and 

 2(jtuiii i^ man. •• 



II. PSYCHOLOGY. 



Prof. Ward, in his vice-presidential address before Section I of the 

 American Association, says that tlie (loctrines of physiocracy laissez 

 /aire and Spencerian individualism and the biologic economy gener- 

 ally are not sustained, and that the facts which society presents are 

 for the most part the reverse of those which were promised by them. 

 The exi)lanation is that the old political economy is true only of irra- 

 tional animals and is altogether inapplicable to rational nmn. Darwin 

 modestly confesses that he derived his original conceptions of natural 

 selection from the reading of Malthus on Population. But he did not, 

 perhaps, perceive that in applying the law of Malthus to the animal 

 world he was introducing it into the only field in which it holds true. 

 Yet such is the ease, and for the reason that the advent with man of 

 the thinking, knowing, foreseeing, calculating, designing, inventing, 

 and constructing faculty, which is wanting in lower creatures, repealed 

 the biologic law or law of nature and enacted in its stead the phycho- 

 logic law, the law of mind. 



In the American Journal of Psychology (1892, IV, 491-502) communi- 

 cations are made to the editor of courses in experimental psychology 

 as follows: In London the present examiners in mental science are 

 Dr. James Sully and Prof. Knight. In University College (Gower 

 street) Prof. Croom Robertson conducts the instruction. King's Col- 

 lege, Bedford College, and the City of London College affiliated with 

 the University provide teaching in psychology. But there is no labora- 

 tory in any of them for experimental psychology and research, indeed 

 the only one in England is at the University of Cambridge. 



In Copenhagen there is at the university a psychological labora- 

 tory under the direction of Dr. Lehman. The instruction in philoso- 

 phy is under the direction of Prof. Harold Hoffding. 



In 1891, a chair of experimental psychology was created in the 

 faculty of sciences of the University of Ceneva, but without a labo- 

 ratory, Wladimir v. Tschisch presents a brief rejtort on the clinic for 

 nervous and mental diseases in Dorpat. 



Yale University has provided a course of study in ex})erimental phil- 

 osophy with reference to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 



Three courses of psychological instruction were pursued in Harvard. 



