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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 975 



Professor W. H. Pyle: "The Value to be De- 

 rived from giving Intelligence Tests to all School 

 Children. ' ' 



Dr. Charles Scott Berry : ' ' Some Limitations of 

 the Binet Tests of Intelligence." 



Dr. Carrie E. Squire: "Some Eequirements of 

 Graded Mental Tests." 



Dr. Grace M. Fernald: "Impressions gained by 

 the Use of the Binet-Simon Tests with Delinquent 

 Children. ' ' 



Dr. E. A. Doll: "Suggestions on the Extension 

 of the Binet Scale." 



Professor J. E. W. WaUin : ' ' Current Miscon- 

 ceptions in Eegard to the Functions of Binet Test- 

 ing and of Amateur Psychological Testers. ' ' 



Professor Lewis M. Terman: "Eevisions of the 

 Binet Scale. ' ' 



Professor G. M. "Whipple: Title of paper to be 

 announced. 



The 67tli report of the British Commission- 

 ers in Lunacy, as abstracted in the London 

 Times, states that the number of notified in- 

 sane persons under care in England and Wales 

 on January 1, 1913, -was 138,37Y, an increase 

 during the year of 2,716, which is 275 above 

 that of the annual average of the last ten 

 years and 257 above that for the last five years. 

 The private patients under care on January 1, 

 1913, numbered 11,353 (males, 4,852; females, 

 6,501). The pauper patients were 125,841 

 (males, 58,508; females, 67,333), or 90.9 per 

 cent, of all the reported insane. The criminal 

 patients numbered 1,183 (males, 903 ; females, 

 280). Since 1898 numerical record has been 

 kept of the first admissions. In that year they 

 were at the rate of 4.92 per 10,000 of the pop- 

 ulation, and in 1912 the figure was 5.12, a 

 higher figure than obtained in either of the 

 three preceding years, but below the average 

 rate (5.2) during the last decade. The pro- 

 portion which such cases bore to the total ad- 

 missions' in the last year was 83.5 per cent., 

 which implies that, for every 100 admitted, 

 between 16 and 17 had been previously under 

 care — a proportion which is rather below the 

 average. On January 1, 1912, there were 

 under detention 108,973 persons, and 22,432 

 were admitted during the year, making a total 

 of 131,405. Of these 7,345 were discharged as 

 " recovered," 2,182 were discharged as " not 

 recovered," 10,353 died and 111,525 remained. 



On the subject of treatment the commissioners 

 say it would seem to be needful to turn from 

 the therapeutic side to the preventive, if in- 

 sanity is to be effectively controlled; or rather 

 that, whilst retaining and improving the for- 

 mer class of measures, more ample considera- 

 tion should be given to the latter. The condi- 

 tion precedent for this is a fuller knowledge 

 of causation to be gained by the prosecution 

 of scientific research. 



The exhibited collection of Mesozoic croco- 

 diles in the geological department of the Brit- 

 ish Museum (Natural History) has been rear- 

 ranged, as we learn from Nature, to incor- 

 porate some important recent acquisitions. A 

 new specimen of Mystriosaurus from the 

 Upper Lias of Wiirtemberg, prepared by Mr. 

 B. Hauff, is one of the finest known examples, 

 with almost complete limbs. The stomach 

 contents are seen, mingled with swallowed 

 pebbles. A specimen of Qeosaurus, from the 

 Lithographic Stone of Bavaria, shows for the 

 first time the triangular tail-fin by which this 

 essentially marine crocodile propelled itself. 

 The unique example of the Wealden river 

 crocodile Goniopholis, discovered a few years 

 ago by Mr. E. W. Hooley in the cliff near 

 Atherfield, Isle of Wight, and described by 

 him in the Geological Society's Journal, has 

 also been mounted and exhibited. 



VNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The sum of $71,000, being all but $5,000 of 

 the estate of the late Dean Mary Goes of Rad- 

 cliffe College, is left to the college. 



Although the buildings which comprise the 

 complete group of the new Manitoba Agricul- 

 tural College, that will cost $5,000,000, will 

 not be completed for two or three years, suffi- 

 cient progress has been made to allow the 

 college to commence moving equipment into 

 the buildings already completed. The site on 

 the bend of the Red River, a few miles south 

 of Winnipeg, contains 1,100 acres. 



The Mobile City Hospital is being enlarged 

 by a new building containing four wards, at 

 a cost of $50,000. It will give accommodation 

 to eighty additional patients, as well as pro- 

 vide suitable quarters for the out-patient de- 



