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lap, of the American Psychological Associa- 

 tion, I am offering to receive and be responsi- 

 ble for contributions. The fund will be used 

 for continuing Dr. Lipmann in his chosen work. 

 Quick response promises to prevent the loss of 

 an international leader from the field of scien- 

 tific research. 



Dr. Lipmann's assistance in founding and 

 editing the Zeitschrift fiir angewandte Psy- 

 ehologie and its Beihefte; his important con- 

 tributions to, educational and vocational psy- 

 chology, 34 titles in one recent bibliography in 

 applied psychology; and the prospect of his 

 many years of continued work, should rouse 

 us out of our routine contributions. There is 

 hope of state support for his work if he can 

 be helped past the present depression. A 

 recent letter makes clear that the need is press- 

 ing if he is to keep to his calling. 



J. B. Miner 

 IjNrvERSiTY OP Kentucky 



SHIPMENT OF AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC 

 LITERATURE TO RUSSIA 



The American Committee to Aid Russian 

 Scientists with Scientific Literature was in- 

 formed by the Headquarters of the American 

 Relief Administration in New York that the 

 first shipment of eleven cases, each weighing 

 about 350 lbs., is being forwarded on the S. S. 

 Norlina, scheduled to sail about August 15th. 



The response of American scientific institu- 

 tions and departments to the appeal of the 

 Committee was remarkably generous. In 

 handling these fii-st shipments the American 

 Relief Administration had considerable diffi- 

 eulty in following the original plan, chiefiy 

 due to the fact that many of the donors failed 

 to prepay the charges to New York and to 

 send advices and lists of their publications, 

 making it necessary for the American Relief 

 Administration in New York to make up lists 

 from the books and pamphlets as the pack- 

 ages were opened. The Committee would 

 greatly appreciate it if the donors of scientific 

 literature for Russia would in the future en- 

 close at least six copies of the list of publica- 

 tions contributed by them. This number of 

 copies is absolutely essential in order to fur- 

 nish the offices of the American Relief Adminis- 

 tration abroad with copies of the packing 



lists, one to be enclosed in each ease, one sent 

 to the American Committee in Washington, 

 still another retained in the files in New York. 

 One copy with a special column provided on it 

 is to be sent to Moscow and later returned to 

 the American Committee with the record of the 

 disposition made of each package of literature 

 sent. All future shipments should be con- 

 signed care Gertzen S Co., 70 West Street, 

 New York, N. Y. 



The literature contributed by donors for de- 

 livery to specific institutions or individuals 

 was packed without being opened and the Com- 

 mittee in Moscow was requested to make de- 

 livery to the person or persons designated on 

 the package. The copy of the inventory, when 

 it is returned from Moscow, should therefore 

 indicate the extent to which it was practicable 

 and consistent with our agreements to comply 

 with the wishes of the donors. 



Raphael Zon, 



Secretary 



QUOTATIONS 



CHILDREN AND MUSEUMS 

 The direct educational work accomplished 

 by museums in the United States is a per- 

 petual source of shame to us in this country. 

 We are well aware that much is being done in 

 some of our own museums, often at the self- 

 sacrifice of their officials; but have we any- 

 thing to compare with what is described in a 

 recent number of Natural History (March- 

 April, 1922)— the journal of the American 

 Museum of Natural History? Consider lan- 

 tern-slides, for example. Our own Natural 

 History Museum has recently started one or 

 two loan collections, comprising in all some few 

 dozen slides. Those of the American Museum 

 number many thousands. They are stored in a 

 room accessible to teachers, who can thus select 

 precisely what they want for their class-room 

 lectures. Last year more than tvpo hundred 

 thousand slides were circulated. It is not long 

 since a fair collection of slides made by an 

 assistant in our own museum was handed over 

 to another institution because there were no 

 facilities for keeping it in the museum itself. 

 Needless to say, the American Museum has a 

 lecture theater. It has 869 nature-study collec- 



