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researches on children's methods of memorising poetry and the distinc- 

 tions between apperceptive and chance associations are going on. No 

 special funds are available. 



In the Northern Universities the work at Manchester, under Pro- 

 fessor Findlay, has been more directly concerned with the organisation 

 of school activities in the light of general principles of a biological 

 and sociological nature. The recent appointment of a lecturer in Ex- 

 perimental Psychology in the University will probably secure just that 

 co-operation which Dr. Myers desires to see established. 



In Liverpool Mr. Burt is continuing his work on Experimental Tests 

 of ' General Intelligence, ' and the following further researches are also 

 proceeding : (1) On the Determination and Influence of Ideational Types 

 in Children; (2) on Mental Differences between the Sexes (at present 

 concerned mainly with sensory acuity, reaction times, attention, 

 memory, and emotions, both in children and adults); (3) on the In- 

 heritance of Simple Mental Characters (correlation between sensory 

 discrimination and reaction time in parent and offspring) ; (4) on the 

 Transferability of Improvement (symmetrical transference — ' cross- 

 education '-—with practice at cutaneous discrimination and tapping, and 

 its correlation with unprovability in higher capacities). 



There are no special funds available at present, either for apparatus 

 or for the encouragement of research students. Considerable spon- 

 taneous interest is, however, being shown by teachers, inspectors of 

 schools, and social workers. 



In Sheffield the Department of Education is provided with a small 

 psychological laboratory, and a small grant is made by the University 

 authorities for its maintenance. During the last session a careful 

 practical application of Binet's Intelligence Tests has been made and 

 will be reported on at this meeting. A research on the schoolboy's 

 mental reactions to current geography instruction is being prosecuted, 

 and a student was engaged during last session upon an inquiry into 

 the psychological differences amongst a small group of sub-normal 

 children. A course of lectures on ' Modern Methods of Child Study ' 

 was given by the Professor of Education during last session. 



In Scotland connection between experimental psychological methods 

 and the study of education is so far recognised that students in training 

 in Edinburgh must take a course which includes at least a term's work 

 in the psychological laboratory. The new building for the Training 

 College is to contain a laboratory, and, in the meantime, simple experi- 

 mental work with simple apparatus is being carried on. Two investiga- 

 tions are at present in progress — one concerning the connection between 

 the rate of reading a passage and its comprehension — and in the demon- 

 stration schools experiments are being carried on in the endeavour to 

 determine the main apperceptive types. 



In Aberdeen Mr. J. Lewis Mclntyre, the Lecturer in Comparative 

 Psychology, takes the psychological work of the students in training. 

 He is at present engaged on experimental work bearing upon the study 

 of memory in children of different ages and conditions. He notes 

 especially the great need of funds; the present preliminary work is done 

 at the expense of the lecturer. 



