328 
correlated. It is not necessary that we 
shall conclude that all of the mental proc- 
esses are associational, and we must, in 
fact, admit that retention, and possibly 
other factors, in memory are not of this 
character. What memory means physio- 
logically we do not know; where memories 
are stored we do not know; and how they 
are stored we do not know. All that we 
do know is that certain disturbances of the 
brain are accompanied by certain mental 
abnormalities, and that similar mental ab- 
normalities are produced by or accompany 
diverse lesions. We have no facts which 
at present will enable us to locate the men- 
tal processes in the brain any better than 
they were located fifty years ago. ‘That 
the mental processes may be due to cereb- 
ral activities we may believe, but with what 
anatomical elements the individual mental 
processes may be connected we do not 
know. Notwithstanding our ignorance, it 
would appear best and most scientific that 
we should not adhere to any of the phreno- 
logical systems, however scientific they may 
appear to be on the surface. We should 
be willing to stand with Brodmann, be- 
lieving that mind is a function or an attri- 
bute of the brain as a whole, or is a con- 
comitant of cerebral operations, but I at 
least am unwilling to stand with the his- 
tological localizationists on the ground of a 
special mental process for special cerebral 
areas or for special cerebral cell groups. 
SHEPHERD Ivory F'RANZ 
GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE [INSANE 
PROFESSORSHIPS IN CHINA 
We are requested to state that several 
teaching positions in the Imperial Pei-Yang 
University, Tientsin, China, are likely to be 
open as soon as stable conditions are restored 
in China. Applications should be sent to 
President S. H. Wang, Imperial Pei-Yang 
University, Tientsin. An application should 
contain: (1) a cable address so that the appli- 
SCIENCE 
[N.S. Vou. XXXV. No. 896 
cant can be engaged by cable, if necessary, 
(2) a full statement of qualifications, espe- 
cially practical and teaching experience, 
(3) age of applicant and other personal de- 
tails, so that, in the absence of an interview 
some idea of the personality of the applicant 
ean be obtained. The Imperial Pei-Yang 
University is the provincial University for 
Chih-li (the province which contains Peking), 
and its position in the educational system of 
China is similar to that which the state uni- 
versity of a correspondingly important state 
in the United States would occupy. ‘This 
does not mean that it is comparable to the 
University of Wisconsin, for example. The 
university, founded in 1895 by Dr. Chas. D. 
Tenney, was destroyed in 1900 and rebuilt in 
1902. Its present president. is Wang Shoh- 
lien, a noted Chinese educator and man of 
affairs, a graduate of Woolwich, England. 
Of the numerous schools which are eventually 
to constitute the university only three have 
yet been organized, Law, Civil Engineering 
and Mining and Metallurgy. In 1910 the 
foreign staff consisted of two professors of 
law, three professors of civil engineering, one 
professor of mechanical engineering, a pro- 
fessor of history and economics, a professor 
of chemistry, a professor of mining and 
geology, and a professor of metallurgy, in ad- 
dition to a numerous staff of Chinese pro- 
fessors and other officers. The courses of 
study in these schools are similar to those in 
American technical schools, but, as can read- 
ily be understood, the conditions surrounding 
the work are somewhat primitive, and make- 
shifts are often necessary. Nevertheless, Co- 
lumbia University and the University of 
California have recognized the completion of 
the course in this university as equivalent to 
attaining the B.S. degree. A description of 
the university and its work can be found in 
Engineering News (one of the numbers 
during the autumn of 1910). All the work 
in technical subjects is done in English, 
though many of the students do not speak 
English with much ease or fluency. In some 
respects the equipment is quite complete, and 
in others it is lacking. The students are at 
