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ascei'taiued range. A complete list accom- 

 panies the paper. 



T. C. Chamberlin reviews ' The Hill Caves of 

 Yucatan,' by Henry C. Mercer, and also a paper 

 by G. Frederick Wright, 'New Evidence of 

 Glacial Man in Ohio.' 



The evidence in question in the latter paper 

 is a rude stone implement found in a gravel ter- 

 race near Brilliant, on the Ohio River, by Mr. 

 Sam. Huston, a surveyor and collector, three or 

 four years ago. The reviewer suggests that 

 some of the natural modes of intrusion are not 

 excluded by Mr. Huston's observations, and 

 that it was not shown that the terrace is primary. 

 The fact that there are terraces along the river 

 at much higher levels gives ground to suspect 

 that the terrace may be more or less secondary 

 :and reworked in post-glacial times. Eespecting 

 intrusion, it is pointed out that the decay of 

 tree roots, which had deeply penetrated the 

 porous sand and gravel, might afford the means 

 of intrusion to the moderate depth at which the 

 implement was found (eight feet), without any 

 notable disturbance of the stratification. 



T. Wayland Vaughan reviews at length an 

 important paper by J. A. Merrill, ' Fossil 

 Sponges of the Flint Nodules of the Lower Cre- 

 taceous of Texas;' and S. Weller reviews the 

 '■ Thirteenth Annual Report of the State Geolo- 

 gist of New York.' 



THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, JANUARY. 



The new volume opens with an article by 

 Prof. G. S. Fullerton on Psychology and Physi- 

 ology, in which it is argued that the discussion 

 of the nervous system in works on physiology 

 contains more anatomy and psychology than 

 physiology. Foster's Text-Booh of Physiology 

 ■is taken as an illustration to show how con- 

 sciousness is used where physiological knowledge 

 fails, the sensory-motor arc being described as 

 partly physical and partly psychical. If the 

 parallel or automaton theory be adapted by 

 the physiologist he should aim to make his 

 science wholly independent of psychology ; if 

 he admit a causal interaction between body and 

 mind he should leave to psychology the investi- 

 ;gation of the mental process. Each science has 

 its appropriate methods, and neither should 

 trespass on the field of the other. 



Prof. Munsterberg communicates four re- 

 searches from the psychological laboratory of 

 Harvard University. Dr. W. G. Smith has in- 

 vestigated the place of repetition in memory. 

 When ten ' nonsense ' syllables were read, there 

 were remembered with entire correctness after 

 one repetition 2.2 ; after three repetitions, 2.5 ; 

 after six, 2.8; after nine, 3.4; after twelve, 

 3.9. The increase with continued repetitions 

 is perhaps less than might have been expected, 

 but there was a considerable degree of indi- 

 vidual variation, one observer remembering 

 but one, and another 6.2 syllables after twelve 

 repetitions. Miss M. W. Calkins contributes 

 experiments on the relative significance of fre- 

 quency, recency, primacy and vividness in as- 

 sociation. A color and a numeral were shown 

 in conjunction, and after a series had been given 

 the colors were repeated in a changed order 

 and the suggested numerals recorded. Fre- 

 quency was the most constant condition and 

 vividness next in importance. Mr. L. M. Solo- 

 mons shows that if a white disk is placed in a 

 weak light, and a rotating black and white disk 

 in a stronger light, it is not possible to get the 

 two to look alike. Mr. J. P. Hylan reports 

 on fluctuations in the intensity of weak sensa- 

 tions. 



There are shorter contributions by Prof. 

 Strong on physical pain and pain nerves; by 

 Prof. Jastrow on community of ideas of men 

 and women; by Mrs. Franklin on the functions 

 of the rods of the retina; by Mr. Urban on the 

 prospective reference of mind; by Prof. Hyslop 

 on localization in space, and by Mr. Lay on 

 synaesthesia. Recent psychological literature is 

 reviewed at length by Professors James, Binet, 

 Cattell, Hibben, Angell and others. 



psyche, FEBRUARY. 



A. Davidson describes the habits of a Cali- 

 fornia wasp of the genus Odynerus, which with 

 its parasite, bred by Dr. Davidson, are described 

 by W. H. Ashmead. W. S. Blatchley con- 

 tinues his notes on the winter insects of Vigo 

 county, Ind., the present instalment covering 

 the Carabidse. H. G. Dyar gives a synopsis of 

 the larvse of the moths or the genus Notolo- 

 phus (Orgyia), with critical notes on most of the 

 species. A. P. Morse continues his discussion 



