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that recent methods has taught us of the cellular structure of the ner- 

 vous system of man and other vertebrates serves as a basis for con- 

 clusions as to the pathology of the various insanities. While lack of 

 space forbids an adequate abstract of these conclusions, we call atten- 

 tion to the paper as one which neither the morphologist, the psychol- 

 ogist, nor the pathologist can afford to ignore. 



c. J. H. 



Psych<)logical Bibliographies. 



The question of a general scientific bibliography is now receiving 

 more attention gerhaps than ever before, and apparently with greater 

 promise of a practical result before the close of the century. But in 

 the mean time the separate disciplines are endeavoring in a more or 

 less desultory way to extricate themselves from the accumulated pro- 

 ducts of their own activity by means of bibliographies, book-lists and 

 indexes. Within the departments of Psychology and Neurology the 

 number of such publications has been increased during the past year 

 by the addition of two annuals, "The Psychological Index" issued by 

 the Psychological Review, and "L'Annee Psychologique" from the 

 Sorbonne laboratory by Beaunis and Binet (Paris, F. Alcan), 



The Psychological Index is compiled by Howard C. Warren and 

 Livingston Farrand and contains 13 12 titles. It is, for American stu- 

 dents at least, doubtless the most useful list published. The sections 

 devoted to neurological topics are far from complete. This, perhaps 

 was to have been expected, though just what was the principle of 

 selection is hard to discover. The other sections are very complete 

 and fairly well arranged. An index of authors concludes the 

 volume. 



L'Annee Psychologique is a bulky volume of 600 pages contain- 

 ing, besides the bibliography proper (1217 titles), other matters of 

 general psychological interest. The first 250 pages are devoted to 

 original papers, mostly from the Paris laboratory, concluding with an 

 elaborate descriptive article on the psychological laboratories of Amer- 

 ica. The 280 pages of the second part are devoted to reviews and 

 abstracts of the more important papers of the year. Illustrations are 

 freely employed and the abstracts are sufficiently full to be of great 

 value. A brief necrology is added. The bibliographical list com- 

 prising the third part is otherwise so valuable that it seems the more 

 unfortunate to find that the titles are all translated into French. If 

 this is necessary for the benefit of some of the French readers, the 

 original titles should certainly be given also. Thus the value of the 



