January 10, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



51 



Ecmarlable persistence of thin horizons : George 

 H. ChjVDwick. 



Portage stratigraphy in western New Yorlc: 

 George H. Chadwick. 



The result of the ballots for officers for 1919 was 

 as follows: 



President — Robert T. Jackson, Peterborough, 

 N. H. 



First Vice-president — Gilbert Van Ingen, Prince- 

 ton, N. J. 



Second Vice-president — Walter Granger, New 

 York City. 



Third Vice-president — T. Wayland Vaughan, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Secretary — -R. S. Bassler, Washington, D C. 



Treasurer — -Richard S. Lull, New Haven, Conn. 



Editor — W. D. Matthew, New York City. 



R. S. Bassler, 



Secretary 



THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL 

 ASSOCIATION 



The American Psychological Association 

 held its twenty-seventh annual meeting at 

 Johns Hopkins University on December 27 

 and 28. Considering the fact that many of 

 the members made other plans when it was 

 announced in November that there would be 

 no meeting, the sessions were very well at- 

 tended, there being about seventy members 

 present. Owing to illness the president. Pro- 

 fessor J. W. Baird, of Clark University, was 

 not able to preside nor to give his presidential 

 address. 



The papers consisted with one exception of 

 descriptions of the war activities of the mem- 

 bers. TJie program was as follows : Research 

 in psycho-pharmacology. Dr. David I. Macht; 

 Study of ocular functions witli special refer- 

 ence to aviation. Professor C. E. Ferree; 

 Revision of the definition for " moron " ; 

 Captain R. L. Sylvester; Psychology of mo- 

 rale, Major Wm. S. Foster; Selection and 

 training of telegraphers, Professor L. L. 

 Thurston ; Some problems of reeducation, Pro- 

 fessor S. I. Franz; Principles underlying the 

 classification of men in the Students' Army 

 Training Corps, Professor T. L. Kellcy; Ex- 

 amination of the emotional fitness for war- 

 fare, Professor R. S. Woodworth ; Practical 

 application of army trade tests. Major J. W. 

 Hayes ; Army personnel work : implications 

 for education and industry. Lieutenant Col- 

 onel W. V. Bingham; The work of the psy- 



chological committee of the National Research 

 Council and of the Division of Psychology, 

 Major R. M. Yerkos; Methods of mental test- 

 ing used in the United States Army, Major 

 Lewis M. Tcrman; Psychological service in 

 army camps. Major George F. Arps; Results 

 and values of psychological examining in the 

 United States Army, Dr. Mabel R. Fernald; 

 The relation of intelligence to occupation as 

 indicated by army data, Dr. J. W. Bridges; 

 Some possible effects of the war on American 

 psychology. President G. Stanley Hall; Func- 

 tions of psychology in rehabilitation of dis- 

 abled soldiers. Major Bird T. Baldwin; A 

 program for mental engineering. Lieutenant 

 Commander Dodge; Official method of ap- 

 pointing and promoting officers in the Army, 

 Colonel Walter Dill Scott; Psychological in- 

 vestigations in aviation. Major Knight Dun- 

 lap; Speech reconstruction in soldiers, Pro- 

 fessor W. B. Swift. 



Saturday afternoon there was a symposium 

 upon "The future of pure and applied psy- 

 chology." Professor Thorudike expressed the 

 opinion that in twenty years there would be 

 as many " doing " as teaching psychology, 

 but that both groups must be thoroughly sci- 

 entific. He saw no reason why the Ph.D. 

 degree in psychology should not represent both 

 types. President Hall stated that psychology 

 should be kept pure, but not so pure that it 

 could not be helpful. Its motto should be 

 '' service " in the best sense of the term. 

 Major Yerkes discussed the future relation of 

 psychology to a permanent National Research 

 Council. 



Professor E. L. Thomdike, as the retiring 

 vice-president of Section H of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 delivered an address upon " Scientific person- 

 nel work in the army " and Professor E. F. 

 Buchner as retiring vice-president of Section 

 L of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science spoke upon " Scientific 

 contributions of the educational survey." 



A brief report of the contents of all the 

 papers will be made in the February number 

 of The Psychological Bulletin. 



