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forthcoming Birmingham meeting. It ap- 

 pears as a subsection to Section I (Physiol- 

 ogy), and among those who have agreed to 

 present papers are: Professor E. M. Ogden on 

 " Experimental Data on the Localization of 

 Visual Images"; Mr. C. Fox, "The Condi- 

 tions which arouse Mental Imagery in 

 Thought " ; Professor Dawes Hicks, " Is there 

 a Process of Psychical Fusion " ; Dr. W. G. 

 Smith, " Contrast as a Factor in Psycholog- 

 ical Explanation"; Dr. C. S. Myers, "Ex- 

 periments on Sound Localization"; Professor 

 C. Eead, " The Conditions of Belief in Primi- 

 tive Minds " ; Mr. W. McDougall, " A Theory 

 of Laughter " ; Dr. Wildon Carr, " The Ab- 

 surdity of Psycho-physical Parallelism " ; Miss 

 May Smith, " Two Forms of Memory and 

 their Eelation " ; Miss E. M. Smith, " Note of 

 Habit Formation in Guinea-pigs " ; Dr. F. C. 

 Shrubsall, " The Eelative Fertility and Mor- 

 bidity of Normal and Defective Stock " ; Mr. 

 J. H. Wimms, " A Comparative Investigation 

 of Fatigue Tests " ; Miss May Smith, " Some 

 Experiments on Eecovery from Fatigue " ; Dr. 

 G. Thomson, " Variations in the Spatial 

 Threshold " ; Mr. Shepherd Dawson, " A Sim- 

 ple Method of Demonstrating Weber's Law " ; 

 Miss S. S. Fairhurst, " Suggestion and Disci- 

 pline in Spelling " ; Dr. C. W. Valentine, 

 " Color Perception and Preference of an In- 

 fant " ; Dr. Mclntyre, " Practise Improvement 

 in Immediate Memory in School Children " ; 

 Dr. E. O. Lewis, " Analytic and Synthetic 

 Processes in Learning " ; Dr. Mclntyre and 

 Miss A. L. Eogers, " Application of the Binet 

 Scale to Normal Children in Scotland " ; Mr. 

 E. C. Moore, " Tests of Eeasoning and their 

 Eelation to Mental Ability"; Mr. W. H. 

 Winch, " Some Additional Tests of Eeason- 

 ing " ; Mr. T. H. Pear, " Modern Experiments 

 on Testimony"; Mr. S. Wyatt, "The Testi- 

 mony of Normal and Defective Children " ; 

 Dr. W. Brown, " Psycho-analysis " ; Mr. T. H. 

 Pear, " The Analysis of Some Personal 

 Dreams with Special Eeference to Theories 

 of Dream Interpretation ", and Mr. C. Burt, 

 " Mental Differences between the Sexes." 

 Joint meetings have also been arranged with 

 the Physiological and Educational sections. 



The forest entomologist of the New York 

 State College of Forestry at Syracuse is mak- 

 ing a thorough study of the forest insects of 

 New York. He has found that many kinds of 

 insects injurious to trees are more numerous 

 and are doing greater damage this year than 

 usual. This is especially true of such insects 

 as the tent caterpillars, aphids or plant lice 

 and scale insects. This serious damage by in- 

 sects to both fruit and forest trees during the 

 past summer is due largely to the very mild 

 weather of last winter, which allowed a large 

 number of insects to pass the cold season suc- 

 cessfully and the long rainless periods of 

 spring and early summer, which enabled the 

 young insects to get a good start in their life 

 work of destroying vegetation. A number of 

 reports have come in at Syracuse of the dying 

 of the native hickory in different parts of the 

 state. In most cases this is due to the hickory 

 bark beetle, which is a very small boring insect, 

 living between the inner bark and the sap 

 wood of the hickory. This beetle makes a 

 burrow in which it lays its eggs and from this 

 burrow, smaller burrows are made in all direc- 

 tions by the young larvae. The hickory tree, 

 from a commercial standpoint, is doomed in 

 New York state, unless very active work is 

 done to prevent the spread of the insect. This 

 can be done only by cutting the infested tree 

 down and disposing of it in such a way as to 

 kill all of the insects under the bark. 



UNIFESSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Hasipton Institute receives $20,000 by the 

 will of the late Eobert C. Ogden. 



The thirteenth legislative assembly of Mon- 

 tana passed an act which provides that after 

 the first day of July, 1913, the State Univer- 

 sity at Missoula, the College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts at Bozeman, the School of 

 Mines at Butte and the Normal School at 

 Dillon, shall constitute the University of Mon- 

 tana, the control and supervision of which 

 shall be vested in the State Board of Educa- 

 tion. The State Board of Education has 

 power, on the recommendation of the execu- 

 tive board of any of the institutions, to grant 

 diplomas and to confer degrees on the gradu- 



