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metric instruments which was circuhited among the leading Enghsh psy- 

 chologists'. The notewortliy fact that resulted was that very little apjtaratus 

 of the kind existerl in England, and practically none had been invente<l 

 there. One di.stinguishctl p.sychnlogist wrote to (Jalton: 



" I roj^irtl yoii an a, public l)enofact<ir and only wish I c<)ul<l !><> <if mom uw! to you. For 

 Home tinu- I liiive lieon iiif«>n<liiii; to jfct tjix<"lli<T somt^ |i«ycho|>hyHicftl nppHrntuN hut llv 

 (lirtirulty liiis l>0)>n Ui get tlii> iiuiuRy. Ju.st ii.s tlint ilillioulty wa.>< U) soiiin cxU-iit RuriiiounU<<l 

 I fouiicl iiiy.Hi'll' cDiiunitti'd to ii lii^giHli picott of lit^^rary work which will lake all my tinio for 

 siiiii<> iiiuiitlis to coino. 



()iu« of till" tirst. thiiif^s I Mifjwit to do wan to wril^> to you and auk to In- aliowwl to spc ttonu- 

 of your apjMiratus; that [ .shall now 1k» aUNt to do when this oxliibition cour-h off. I expect 

 you kni>w a >;it'at deal luoro alM>ut the whole thinj{ than I <lo. I may, however, mention two 

 or thr<^> hooks and pa|M>rH in which apparatus has Imhih descrilK^d." 



.\nd then follows a list of references, almost entirely to German pa|)er8. 



" But I am afraid in saying all this to you I am making myself very otTensive, sending slack 

 to Newcastle. However you nnist forgivo me, if you will, and believe that I am only anxious 

 U) b<- of use to you if I etin." 



These sentences seem to .suggest that in 1 884 a leading psychologist could 

 recognise Galton »w a pioneer. The sjime authority, writing in 1911, says: 



"The j)osition I think is this: Oalton deserves to Ix; calle<l the first Knglishnian to publish 

 work that was strictly what is now called Kxperimental Psychology, but the development of 

 the nxivonient academically has, I Ix'liove, in no way been intluencetl by him." 



Possibly it would have been better for English psychology had it \teen 

 e iiiHuenced by Galton. We should then have had an original English 

 School of I'.sychology, not handic<\pped by (Jeiinan dominance. But no one 

 can to-day examine American and English psychological pajwrs without 

 recognising that their chief superiority over German and French work lies 

 in tlie adoption of Galton's correlational calcidtis. It ha.s given them a 

 methodology far superior to that of their continental competitors, and on 



' 42, Rutland Oatk, aW. Jan. 28/84. 



1>KAK Mb I have undertaken to arrange aiul exhibit at the largi* forthcoming Health 



Kxhibitioii a suitable outfit for an Aiithropmictric I^itwratory. Its object would be to afford 

 means of (h>fining and measuring personal peculiarities of Form and Faculty, more especially 

 to test whether any given person, reganleil as a human machine, was at the time of trial more 

 or less effective than others of the sjinie age and sex. Again, to show by means of te.stings 

 rt!peate<l at intervals during life, whether the nite of his development and decay was normal. 

 The apparatus should refer to: — 



1. Ordinary weighing and measuring, spii-onieter, colour of hair and eyes, etc. 



2. Muscular action, — strength, estimate of range of motion, right and left-hande<lneHS, 

 steadiness of hand, etc. 



3. Ktlectiveness of the various .senses, duration of impreasions, after-images, reaction-times, 

 waxing and waning stimuli, etc. 



. 1. Higher mental procc-sses, judgment of lengths, angles, memory of eye and ear. Elo- 



I^L mentary Judgment's, innps atid apparatus. 



I^B (This is but a brief ofTliiind and not a well methodised description, but it will serve for the 



W^M present.) 



I^B Have you any s|>ecial apparatus that you would allow me to exhibit in your namet Either 



I^B the apparatus it,self, a picture of it, or any hints from which I could have apparatus madef 



I^B I should lx> most gratf/id for any hints. Very faithfully yours, Fkancis Oaltoj*. 



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