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of the Kellogg University Fellowship, his 

 tenure of which lasted from 1894 to 1900. In 

 1900 he was appointed professor of psychology 

 in Smith College. He was an active member 

 of the American Psychological Association, 

 being for three years its secretary (1908-1910) 

 and for another three years a valued member 

 of the council (1911-1913). For the past four 

 years he was editor-in-chief of the Psycho- 

 logical Bulletin. His first contribution to 

 psychological science was an investigation on 

 phenomena of attention conducted in col- 

 laboration with J. E. Angell in the Harvard 

 laboratory and published in 1892. Two years 

 later he published a paper on the localization 

 of sound. For several years he made a careful 

 study of geometrical-optical illusions. The 

 results of these researches were collected into 

 a volume, the " Studies in Auditory and 

 Visual Space-Perception," published in 1901. 

 Since then his attention as a psychologist was 

 largely given to phenomena of dreams, hyp- 

 notism, subconsciousness and synesthesia, in 

 which field the most important of his publica- 

 tions was the noteworthy paper entitled, " An 

 Appeal from the Prevailing Doctrine of a 

 Detached Subconsciousness," published in the 

 Garman memorial volume in 1906. 



Arthur Pierce was a man of singular breadth, 

 balance and clarity of mind, of equable temper 

 and of rare personal charm. All his work as 

 teacher, investigator and administrator was 

 marked by thorough conscientiousness and 

 careful attention to details. His cheerful dis- 

 position, his unvarying courtesy, his quick, 

 yet unobtrusive, sympathy, his resourceful- 

 ness and his practical good sense made him 

 universally admired and beloved and his loss 

 will be deeply and widely felt not only by his 

 psychological colleagues, but by many in di- 

 verse walks of life who counted him as a 

 loyal friend. 



H. N. G. 



TSE FAIUPOnr BIOLOGICAL STATION 

 The biological laboratory of the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries, Fairport Station, 

 will be opened for general biological investi- 

 gations in the early part of the coming sum- 



mer. This is the first permanent laboratory 

 established by the government for the special 

 study of freshwater biology and problems . 

 relating to freshwater fishery resources. The 

 station is located on the Mississippi River 

 twenty miles west of Davenport and eight 

 miles east of Muscatine, Iowa, on the main 

 line of the Rock Island railway between Chi-: 

 cag'o and Kansas City. Chicago, Milwaukee 

 and St. Paul Railway trains from Chicago to 

 Kansas City also pass through Fairport, using 

 the Rock Island tracks. 



The Fairport station was established by Act 

 of Congress for mussel propagation and bio- 

 logical investigations. It has been in con- 

 struction for several years, during which 

 period the permanent staff of the station and 

 a few associates have been engaged, apart 

 from the propagation work, in experiments 

 and other forms of investigation, both at the 

 station and in the field in various parts of the 

 Mississippi basin. Small temporary quarters 

 were occupied. 



The permanent laboratory building, which 

 is about 50 X 100 feet, was constructed last 

 year, and it is now largely equipped and 

 ready for summer occupancy. The two main 

 stories of the laboratory building comprise a 

 general laboratory, and several smaller special 

 laboratories, a library, storeroom, ofiices and 

 six bed-chambers. On the third floor are addi- 

 tional bed-chambers and storage compart- 

 ments, while the dining-room and kitchen are 

 located in the basement. The building is sup- 

 plied throughout with filtered water from an 

 underground concrete cistern on the hillside. 



On the grounds below and above the rail- 

 way are ten earth ponds, the largest of which 

 is an acre and a quarter in extent, and four- 

 teen small concrete-lined ponds of different 

 forms and depth. There is also a tank house, 

 twenty-five by fifty feet, in which are various 

 tanks and troughs. The ponds and the tank 

 house are supplied with unfiltered river water 

 drawn by gravity from a storage basin hold- 

 ing about two million gallons. The pumping 

 equipment consists of three steam-turbine- 

 driven pumping units of a maximum pumping 



