April 4, 1902.] 



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also notices), such as 'socius,' 'organic' and 

 •reflective' sympathy, are used with no intima- 

 tion of their origin. 



'My terms,' Professor Baldwin calls 'socius,' 

 ' organic ' and ' reflective sympathy.' We do not 

 suppose that he claims to have coined the 

 word 'socius,' while the specific concept to 

 which Professor Giddings has attached it, if 

 we understand his language, he repudiates. 

 The terms 'organic' and 'reflective' sjnnpathy 

 might conceivably be claimed as inventions in 

 technical nomenclature. But on page 220 of 

 Professor Baldwin's ' Social and Ethical Inter- 

 pretations ' we find the following quit 

 claim : 



"Psychologists are generally agreed in find- 

 ing a distinction necessary between 'organic' 

 and 'reflective' sympathy, similar to the dis- 

 tinction which has been made in considering 

 modesty." 



But terms are, of course, minor matters. 

 Let us turn at once to the pure essence of 

 Appendix D. Here it is : 



"Wlienever the situation depicted by Adam 

 Smith's 'Illustration' was realized — cases in- 

 volving the sight of both an aggressor and an 

 aggressee with their respective claims upon 

 the onlooker B for sympathy — the creature 

 whose shape, movements, postures, cries, etc., 

 were like those of B would be the one which 

 would supply B's copy-system and the one 

 with which his cooperations would arise; that 

 is the animul of the same hind. So subjective 

 sympathy would at once be a 'consciousness 

 of kind' and the objective reactions would be 

 indicative of 'kind.'" 



The quality of Professor Giddings' dishon- 

 esty is now revealed. In a review of Pro- 

 fessor Baldwin's book Professor Giddings has 

 put in 'his way' certain things that Professor 

 Baldwin had put in 'his way' in Appendix 

 I), and Professor Baldwin's way — in Appendix 

 D — consists in putting quotation marks about 

 Giddings' way. 



In conclusion I would repeat with Professor 

 Small 'there is glory enough to go round.' 

 This means that it is not necessary to vilify 

 other scientists' eilorts and work in order to 

 raise the value of one's own contributions. If 

 Professor Baldwin would only remember what 



he owes to M. Tarde he would certainly hesi- 

 tate to accuse others of plagiarism. 



New Yobk City. Gustavo Tosti. 



cabnegie institution. 

 The Advisory Committee in Astronomy 

 will be glad to receive information or sugges- 

 tions, regarding investigations in astronomy 

 which should be aided by the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution. It is advisable that applications 

 should be made as soon as possible. They 

 may be addressed to the Chairman of the 

 Committee, Cambridge, Mass. 



EDWiVED C. Pickering, Chairman. 

 Lewis Boss. 



George E. Hale, Secretary. 

 s. p. l angle y. 

 Simon Newcomb. 

 Cambridge, March 29, 1902. 



SHORTER ARTICLES. 



DISCHARGE FROM HOT PLATINUM WIRES. 



During the past year I have been investi- 

 gating the discharge from a hot platinum wire, 

 and the results of this work may, perhaps, be 

 of interest to others. An article has been re- 

 cently published by Rutherfor4* on the same 

 subject, in which he determined the velocity 

 of the positive ions and showed that at higher 

 temperatures their average velocity was less 

 than at lower. My own work was intended to 

 compare the velocities of the positive and neg- 

 ative ions and to explain as far as possible the 

 decrease in the velocity at higher tempera- 

 tures. 



By a method similar to one which I had 

 previously used in studying the discharge 

 from a flamef it was shown that the average 

 velocity of the positive ions is greater than 

 that of the negative. By a method similar 

 to one used by Zeleny:j: it was shown that the 

 most rapidly moving positive ions have a 

 greater velocity than the most rapidly moving 

 negative ones. By a modification of this 

 method it was shown that the most slowly 

 moving positive ions given ofi at lower tem- 

 perature move comparatively rapidly, but that 

 at higher temperatures some are sent ofF which 



* Science, 14, 590, and Phys. Rev., 13, 321. 



i Phys. Rev., 12, 65. 



t Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Land., 195, 193. 



