SCIENCE 





Fkidat, April 27, 1917 



CONTENTS 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — ■ 



Personality as Revealed hy the Content of 

 Images: Pkofessok Lillien J. Maktin.... 393 



The Industrial Fellowships of the Mellon In- 

 stitute : Dr. R. F. Bacon 399 



Scientifio Events: — 



Grants for Scientific and Industrial Research 

 in England; The General Medical Board of 

 the Council of National Defense 403 



Scientifio Notes and News 405 



University and Educational News 407 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Viable Ten-year-old Culture of Bacillus 

 paratyphosus beta: Dk. M. W. Lyon, Jk. A 

 Method for Killing Turtles: Newton 

 Miller 408 



Scientific Books: — 

 MacMahon on Combinatory Analysis: Pro- 

 rEssoK James Byrnie Shaw 409 



Special Articles: — 

 Inheritance of Oil in Cotton: E. P. Hum- 

 bert 411 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section D — Mechanical Science and Engi- 

 neering : PKorEssoR A. H. Blanchard .... 412 



Minutes of the Council 415 



Einancial Report of the Permanent Secre- 

 tary 416 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review sliould be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



PERSONALITY AS REVEALED BY THE 

 CONTENT OF IMAGES i 



Character study and the investigation 

 of personality have recently assumed, on 

 account of the present tendency to apply 

 psychology, a psychological importance 

 they did not formerly possess, and since it 

 has given rise to a general interest in any 

 work looking towards the possibility of 

 getting additional information regarding 

 the individual consciousness, it has seemed 

 to me I could not do better to-day than to 

 outline the results of an investigation 

 which I have made to ascertain whether it 

 is possible through the examination of the 

 content of an individual's images to ob- 

 tain an insight into the predominating fea- 

 tures of his personality, that is, the psychi- 

 cal and physical activities which character- 

 ize and distinguish him from others. 



The experiments were made with 20 per- 

 sons, largely professors and students con- 

 nected with the Stanford University. In 

 half of these experiments (S.) the observ- 

 ers allowed visual images to arise of them- 

 selves and in the other half (V.) they 

 aroused them. It is scarcely necessary to 

 add that the experiments were " unwissent- 

 lich." 



The most important fact that comes out 

 in examining the tabulated results and 

 what was given to protocol is that visual 

 images reveal the mental and physical 

 peculiarities and preferences of an indi- 

 vidual. 



In what foUowa, I shall take up in detail the re- 

 sults of but 3 observers, to show that the data ob- 



1 Address of the vice-president and chairman 

 of Section H, Anthropology and Psychology, Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 New York meeting, December, 1916. 



