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can psychologists who are interested 

 in the question of character analysis 

 have made a few fragmentary studies, 

 and have shown, for instance, that 

 beauty and intelligence tend to go to- 

 gether — as indeed one would expect — 

 but their methods have been much less 

 trustworthy than those of the memoir 

 above quoted, and the results they have 

 secured have not added much to the 

 knowledge of the problem.^ 



It is not meant here to deny that a 

 skilful man can judge character with 

 some degree of success. Very possibly 

 he can, although such accurate tests 

 as have been made have not always 

 been favorable to the claim, according to 

 Hollingworth's account. 



Such success as is attained, it would 

 seem, is due to the way in which a man's 

 face frequently reveals his inner nature. 

 His face may be read in an intuitional 

 way ; but any claims for the diagnosis of 

 intelligence by means of measurable 

 features of the head have never been 

 substantiated. Much progress in char- 



acter analysis is to be hoped for from the 

 use of the exact methods of a modern 

 psychologist's laboratory, but it is 

 doubtful whether accurate results can 

 ever be expected from estimates based 

 on external appearances. 



Pearson's Coefficients of the Correlation 

 OF Ability with Various Mental and 

 Physical Characters 



Mean 

 {both 

 Character sexes) Boys Girls 



Conscientiousness 45 .46 .43 



Handwriting 29 .28 .30 



Popularity 26 .22 .30 



Athletic power 22 .20 .24 



Temper 21 .19 .22 



Health 18 .17 .19 



Head length 11 .14 .08 



Head breadth 11 .11 .11 



Hair color 10 .10 .09 



Shyness 10 .03 .18 



Self consciousness 07 .10 .03 



Eye color 07 .08 .06 



Head height 06 .07 .05 



Age 06 .05 .08 



Quiet habits 06 .04 .09 



Hair set .06 .04 .09 



Cephalic index ... — . 04 .07 



Field Workers' Conference on Eugenics 



The annual Field Workers' Conference 

 for 1917 will be held at Cold Spring 

 Harbor on Friday, June 22, continuing 

 on Saturday, June 23, at the Brookljm 

 Institute of Arts and Science. All 

 members of the several training classes 

 in eugenics, as well as other persons who 

 have been engaged in or are especially 

 interested in modern eugenical field 

 studies, are invited to be present. 



The plan will be much the same as 

 that of former conferences. There will 

 be no formal program, but each person 

 present will be invited to tell of his or 

 her work during the past year, and to 

 present for discussion some of the 

 problems which have especially pre- 

 sented themselves. Further announce- 

 ment concerning the conference will be 

 made next month. — Eugenical News. 



New Tests for Species and Hybrids 



External characters have always given 

 naturalists the means of telling one 

 species from another, but the work of 

 E. T. Reichert and others in recent years 

 shows that internal, physical and chemi- 

 cal characters may be used with much 

 precision. Dr. Reichert describes the 

 continuation of his work in the year- 

 book of the Carnegie Institution. 



Many different tests have been made of 

 starches, and it is found that those from 

 one species react differently, in many 

 ways, from those of even a closely re- 

 lated species. Genus and variety also 

 yield distinctive results while hybrids 

 may, by the new methods, be referred 

 to their true parentage. Similar studies 

 are being made of proteins. 



'Prof. H. L. HolHngworth's book, "Vocationa [Psychology" (New York, 1916), gives a good 

 summary of the work that has been done. 



