November 21, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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meeting at Philadelphia, under the auspices of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, on Wednes- 

 day, December 31, 1913. 



The morning session will be open for papers 

 on evolution, genetics and related subjects 

 from members or invited guests, titles of 

 which with estimated length of delivery must 

 be in the hands of the secretary by December 1. 

 Requests for microscopes or for space for 

 demonstrations should also be sent to the sec- 

 retary. 



The program of the afternoon will be a 

 symposium on " The Scope of Biological 

 Teaching in relation to New Fields of Dis- 

 covery." The annual dinner will be held in 

 the evening of the same day. 



Headquarters of the affiliated societies will 

 be at the Hotel Walton, Broad and Locust 

 Streets. Bradley M. Davis, 



Secretary 



Universitt of Pennsylvania 



TEE AMERICAN PSTCBOLOGICAL ASSOCIA- 

 TION 



Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Decem- 

 ber 29, 30 and 31, have been selected as the 

 dates for the twenty-second annual meeting of 

 the American Psychological Association. At 

 the invitation of the psychologists at Tale 

 University, the sessions will be held in New 

 Haven, in affiliation with the American Philo- 

 sophical Association. 



One joint session of the two societies will be 

 arranged. At the present time it is still un- 

 certain whether this session will be devoted 

 wholly to discussion of the theme, " The Stand- 

 point of Psychology," or whether a varied pro- 

 gram will be made by selecting from among 

 the papers offered, a few of those that promise 

 to be of greatest interest to the membership 

 of both associations. 



Bound Tables. — It has been proposed 

 to provide time on the program for infor- 

 mal round-table conferences of small groups 

 of psychologists who are particularly inter- 

 ested in some more or less specialized subject. 

 " Psychological Tests of College Freshmen," 

 for example, is one of the topics in which sev- 

 eral laboratories seem to have a waxing inter- 



est just now, and doubtless an informal inter- 

 change of ideas and experience would have 

 some value. More or less related themes are 

 "Psychological Tests and Vocational Guid- 

 ance " ; " Graded Measurements of Adult Intel- 

 ligence " ; " Problems of Psychological Re- 

 search among Defectives and Delinquents." A 

 timely topic, sure to call out a clash of ideas, 

 has been suggested to the secretary from differ- 

 ent quarters, " The Movement toward Divorce 

 of Philosophy and Psychology." Is psychology, 

 more than any of the other natural sciences, 

 dependent on philosophy? In how far are 

 the two disciplines being benefited by the 

 rapidly spreading tendency toward separation 

 of the two departments in university organi- 

 zation? 



This year, as usual, the main portion of the 

 program will be reserved for reports of experi- 

 mental research. The experience of recent 

 meetings has convinced the committee that 

 these reports are of the greatest value when 

 they do not undertake to go into detail, but 

 aim instead to state clearly, but briefly, the 

 nature of the problem and the method of 

 attack, and then pass at once to the general 

 summary of the results and a discussion of the 

 conclusions reached, leaving the mass of de- 

 tailed results to be presented when the re- 

 search is published in full. It is impossible 

 to compact an effective report of research into 

 the ten or fifteen minutes allowed, when an 

 effort is made to include in it a bulk of de- 

 tailed information which is beyond the maxi- 

 mal span of the attention of an average 

 psychologist. 



Cards for use in sending in the titles of re- 

 ports will be mailed to all members shortly. 



The Tale laboratory affords excellent 

 quarters for the display of apparatus. Mem- 

 bers are asked to inform the secretary of any 

 new form of apparatus or any useful demon- 

 stration device which has not already been 

 brought to the notice of this society. Im- 

 provements on standard appliances are often 

 quite as worthy of attention as entirely new 

 forms. The expense of transportation will, up 

 to a certain limit, be assumed by the Asso- 

 ciation. 



