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of psychological examining in the army; an account of the 

 methods as originally recommended, as revised, and as finally 

 applied throughout the army; the history of the organization 

 of the School for Military Psychology, and of the appointment 

 training and assignment of the psychological personnel of the 

 Sanitary Corps, and, finally, a summary account of the re- 

 sults of psychological examining and their values to the army, 

 together with recommendations or report concerning the re- 

 lations of this service to the permanent United States Army. 

 It is believed that this report can be limited to approximately 

 three hundred pages. 



For scientific purposes, it is planned to prepare more de- 

 tailed reports on methods and results which it is hoped may 

 be published as memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. 



The initial volume, the manuscript of which is nearly 

 completed, will consist of three parts: (i) An introductory 

 description of the inception and organization of psychological 

 service. (2) A detailed description of the methods of army 

 examining in the various forms in which they have been tried 

 out. This part of the volume will reproduce the directions 

 for examination and the several examination blanks, together 

 with all other printed materials, norms, and other standards 

 of judgment which are essential for the proper understanding 

 of the methods and their uses. (3) As a third part, it is pro- 

 posed to present a complete account of the results of official 

 trial of the methods in four National Army cantonments. 

 This will include a description of the principal phases of the 

 early organization of psychological service in the army and 

 of the general relations of results of examining to revisions of 

 method and extension of the work to the entire army. 



In a second volume it is planned to present results of the 

 examination of approximately 1,600,000 soldiers. In addi- 

 tion to a general description of results, the volume will pre- 

 sent a statistical study (based upon data secured with the 

 Hollerith System) of approximately 200,000 records of exam- 

 ination chosen so that they adequately represent states, arms 

 of the service, negroes and whites, and types of camp. 



Finally, miscellaneous materials which cannot properly 



