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Ribot which have set the course for present day investi- 

 gations in France are the following : "L'Heredite psycho- 

 logique" (i 88 2) ;"Les Maladies de la volonte" (1883; i4th 

 ed., 1899); "Les Maladies de la personnalite" (1885; 8th 

 ed., 1899); "La Psychologic de Pattention" (1889). 



France is the source of a movement which, in American 

 departments of Psychology, is occupying more attention 

 than any other single object: the invention and applica- 

 tion of psychological tests. Alfred BINET (1857-1911), 

 in collaboration with Thomas SIMON (1873-), originated 

 the Binet Tests. Binet established the first psycho- 

 logical laboratory in France at the Sorbonne in 1889, an d 

 in 1895 he began the publication of "L'Annee psycho- 

 logique," in which his most important works appear. 



Taking the Psychological Review Indices for 1913 and 

 1914, about one-sixth of all the world's titles on Abnormal 

 Psychology are in the French language by French authors. 

 This will suggest the activity of contemporary work in 

 psychology in France. 



Instruction. Paris. All of the sixteen universities in 

 France offer inducements to graduate students in psych- 

 ology. 



Naturally the University of Paris presents the widest 

 range of opportunities, both directly through the uni- 

 versity itself and indirectly through numerous auxiliary 

 institutions in the neighborhood. Among these, one must 

 mention first of all, from the point of view of the student 

 of psychology, the College de France. Indeed one would 

 hardly go to Paris for research in psychology without 

 taking advantage of this institution of learning. 



At the University of Paris are DELBOS (Philosophy and 

 Psychology), Georges DUMAS (Experimental Psychology), 

 LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE (whose studies of Aphasia and of 

 Dementia in syphilitic cases are well known), and 



