TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION I. 315 



useful end is served by trying to force them apart by artificial or arbitrary 

 distinctions. 



2. Experience has shown (as in France, for example) that if any centre of 

 the kind, viz. an institute of applied peychology, is to ^jrove a succes.s, it must 

 be established iipon a basis as broad and comprehensive as can be obtained, 

 pandering to no isolated interest, whether scientific cult or professional clique. 



ConstUution. 



Briefly, and in substance, the proposals are : — 



That this organisation shall comprise both an Institute and a Society ; 



That the Institute shall consist of a number of laboratories, representing 

 the several branches of psycho-physical science, and of a number of sections, 

 representing the several departments of life to which that science will be applied ; 



That the Society-, consisting of President, Council, and Members, shall 

 interest itself generally in the scientific work of the centre, and shall constitute 

 the nexus between that centre and the external spheres which furnish its 

 material ; 



That the Council of the Society shall act in the capacity of an Advisory 

 Committee to the Executive Committee of the Institute; and, 



As a preliminary step in the organisation of the scheme; 



That those persons shall be eligible, as members of the Advisory Committee, 

 who are duly qualified specialists in mental science, or some technical branch 

 thereof, or who are authorities in one of those departments to which psycho- 

 logical method requires to be applied. 



Regulation. 



As only a fraction of the resources of modern psychology are as yet applied, 

 the prospective field of application is wide. In devoting attention to that 

 field, however, the General Institute will not undertake any form or quality 

 of work which may be, with more propriety, undertaken at a separate centre, 

 or which does not wholly accord with its fundamental scientific aims. But, 

 with this proviso, it will endeavour to give assistance wherever sought with 

 the sanction of proper authority, and, in the solution of all practical problems, 

 will invite the harmonious co-operation of each department which its work may 

 concern. 



Joint Meeting with Section H. — See Section H, p. 292. 



