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Motor Car Company; Robert H. Salmons, vice- 

 president Selden Truck Corporation; E. M. 

 Sternberg, Sterling Motor Truck Company; 

 Roy D. Chapin, president Hudson Motor Car 

 Company; A. J. Brosseau, president Mack 

 Motor Car Company; H. S. Firestone, presi- 

 dent Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; 

 H. W. Alden, vice-president Timken-Detroit 

 Axle Company; Clark A. Ward, president 

 Ward Motor Vehicle Company. 



THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL 

 ASSOCIATION 



The Cambridge meeting of the American 

 Psychological Association will be held on De- 

 cember 27, 28 and 29. The sessions will be in 

 Emerson Hall, Harvard University, and the 

 official headquarters at the Hotel Bellevue in 

 Boston. 



Because of the increased pressure for places 

 on the program, the program committee is ex- 

 tending the sessions to include the afternoon of 

 the third day of the meetings. So far as pos- 

 sible papers of general and theoretical import 

 will be placed in the sessions on Wednesday, 

 December 27. The business meeting will be on 

 Wednesday evening. The sessions of Thursday, 

 December 28, will include a symposium ar- 

 ranged by Section I of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science and the 

 address of Professor Bott, retiring vice-presi- 

 dent of Section I. The annual dinner of the 

 association followed by the presidential ad- 

 dress and smoker will be Thursday evening. 

 Friday, December 29, will be devoted to ses- 

 sions of the Section of Clinical Psychology. 

 In the afternoon the session will be at the 

 Boston Psychopathic Hospital at the invitation 

 of Dr. Campbell and Dr. Wells. 



Apparatus may be exhibited in the Psycho- 

 logical Laboratory in Emerson Hall. Members 

 are asked to supervise the setting up of their 

 apparatus and the repacking of it. Consign- 

 ments should be shipped to Dr. C. C. Pratt, 

 Emerson Hall, Cambridge, Mass. The treas- 

 urer is authorized to pay transportation 

 charges on apparatus, charts, demonstrational 

 devices and text materials which the members 

 display. 



A cordial invitation has been extended to 



members by Professor M. W. Calkins to visit 

 Wellesley College; by Dr. W. E. Fernald to 

 visit the Massachusetts State School for Feeble- 

 minded at Waverley; by Dr. Wm. Healy to 

 visit the Judge Baker Foundation at 40 Court 

 Street, Boston; and by Dr. 0. H. Lundholm to 

 visit McLean Hospital at Waverley. Arrange- 

 ments for these visits will be made during the 

 meeting. Dr. Campbell and Dr. Wells invite 

 the members to examine the work at the Boston 

 Psychopathic Hospital after the meeting at the 

 hospital on December 29. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Robert A. Millikan, chairman of the 

 board of the California Institute of Tech- 

 nology and director of the Norman Bridge Lab- 

 oratory, has been appointed a member of the 

 committee on intellectual cooperation of the 

 League of Nations to succeed Dr. George E. 

 Hale, who has resigned from the committee. 



Dr. Ludwik Silbeestein, mathematical 

 physicist at the Eastman Kodak Comisany 

 Research Laboratory, has been appointed a 

 member of the Commission on Relativity of the 

 International Astronomical Union. 



De. Charles B. Davenpoet, director of the 

 Station for Experimental Evolution and the 

 Eugenics Record Office of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, left New York on the 

 Paris for Europe on September 13. He planned 

 to proceed to Briinn, Czechoslovakia, for 

 the purpose of participating in the Interna- 

 tional Gregor Mendel Centenary on September 

 22, 1922, and from Briinn to go to Vienna 

 to attend the meeting of the German Society of 

 Geneticists from September 25 to 28. His next 

 visit will be to Upsala, where he will confer 

 with Dr. Herman B. Lundborg of the Univer- 

 sity of Sweden. From Sweden he will proceed 

 to Norway for the purpose of paying a visit to 

 Dr. Jon Alfred Mjoen, of the Winderen Lab- 

 oratorium, Christiania, thence to Holland to 

 visit Dr. Job. Von Der Speck, Doldersehe Weg. 

 60, Den Dolder. He will go to Belgium for 

 the purpose of attending, as delegate of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington and the 

 Eugenics Research Association, the meetings of 

 the International Commission of Eugenics. 



