350 NATURAL SCIENCE [November 
tenths of a second. They were mis-spelt by the omission of a letter, 
the substitution of a wrong letter, or the blurring of a letter by print- 
ing an x over it. The object was to determine the relative influence 
of the objective factor in the visual stimulus, and the subjective factor 
through association and apperception. The experiments were, so far 
as possible, carefully tabulated, and it required not a little skill (and 
some imagination) to educe results of any decisive value. A good 
resumé of Prof. Wundt’s views on apperception is given, and the 
conclusions reached are in line with those obtained in a quite different 
way by Dr Stout in his recent work on Analytical Psychology. 
The New Age, which was started in April, is published on the 15th 
of each month by the proprietor, 68/2 Shikdar Bagan Street, Calcutta. 
The annual subscription is Rs. 2.12. The editor is 8. C. Mukho- 
padhaya, M.A. There is some want of discrimination shown in 
the selection of tit-bits for this “Journal of universal information,” 
but it will probably be of interest to the readers for whom it is in- 
tended, and it interests us as an expression of the views of the educated 
Hindu community. 
We regret to learn that with the October number the Inéer- 
national Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, for sixteen years 
the organ of the Postal Microscopical Society, has ceased to exist from 
lack of adequate financial support. 
The Psychological Review, vol. iv. No. 5, contains a suggestive paper 
by Prof. Mark Baldwin on the “Psychology of Social Organisation.” 
The author is one of those who are in sympathy with biological studies, 
and who seek to correlate the biological and the psychological factors 
in the development of social life from its pre-social beginnings. The 
same writer gives in the “ Princeton Contributions to Psychology,” re- 
printed from the preceding number of the Psychological Review, a dis- 
cussion of “ Determinate Evolution,” which should prove of interest to 
biologists. 
In the Albuquerque Morning Democrat, Prof. Cockerell gives a report 
on the Mexican dietary as studied by Prof. Goss. He finds that the 
principal food of the Mexican peasant is flour, corn meal, and chili, 
and that he is using more carbo-hydrates and less proteids than is 
desirable. The Mexican gets most of his proteids from frijoles, and for 
the better nourishment of the peasant Prof. Goss suggests a larger use 
of frijoles in proportion to the flour and meal. The work is being 
carried on at the Mesilla Park experiment station, and the object 
aimed at is an improved dietary after examination of soils and im- 
provement in agricultural produce. 
In the Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, vol. 
ii. pt. 5, Colonel Duthie writes on the British abode of the Crested 
Titmouse (Parus cristatus) ; Messrs Coates and Macnair on a banded 
Hornblende Schist at Balhoulan Quarry, Pitlochry ; and Mr Macnair 
on Rocks of Highland Perthshire. The president, Mr Coates, also gives 
a presidential address entitled The Origin of Soils, with special refer- 
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