SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Editoei^l Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; B. S. Woodwaed, Meohanios ; E. C. Pickering 

 Astronomy ; T. C- Mkndenhall, Physios ; R. H. Thdbston, Engineering ; Iea Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 Chables D. Walcott, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Hknby F. Osborn, Paleon- 

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Mkrriam, Zoology ; S. H. Scudder, Entomology ; C. £. 

 Bessey, N. L. Britton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. 

 BowDiTCH, Physiology ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 

 J. McEebn Caitell, Psychology. 



Friday, August 14, 1903. 



COSTEXrS: 



Ten Years of American Psychology : Pno- 

 FESSOR Edward Franklin Buchxer 193 



Professor Alexander Graham Bell on Kite 

 Constniction : H. H. Clayton 204 



Scientific Books: — 



Livitigston on the R6le of Diffusion and 

 Osmotic Pressure in Plants: Professor 

 Charles E. Bessey 208 



Scientific Journals and Articles 209 



Societies and Academics: — 



The Biological Society of St. Louis: W. L. 



ElKEXBERBY 210 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Advantages of the Government Cinchona 

 Plantation iit Jamaica as a Tropical Botan- 

 ical Statioti: Professor Duncan S. John- 

 son 210 



Shorter Articles: — 



The Stratigraphic Position of the Judith 

 River Reds and their Correlation irith the 

 Belly River Beds: J. B. Hatcher, T. \V. 

 Stanton. \otcs on the Geology of Long 

 Island: A. C. Veatch. The Kent County, 

 Mich., Upland Plant Societies: Dr. P^ancis 

 DANIEI..S. Disrori ry of the Breeding Area 

 of Kirtland's Warbler in Michigan: Dr. C. 

 C. Adams 211 



Current Xotes on Meteorology: — 



Climate of Cairo; Thunderstorms and the 

 Moon; Rain and Dust Fall in Edinburgh in. 



190^: Prof'essor R. DeC. Ward 217 



-Veip York Zoological Park: H. F. 218 



The Lister Institute 219 



Scientific Notes and News 220 



University and Educational \cws 224 



MSS. Intended for pabllcatioa and books, etc.. intendel 

 lor review abould be sent to tbe responsible editor, Pro- 

 feisor J. McKe»n Cattell, Qarrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



TEX YEARS OF AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY: 

 lS9i-1902.* 



I. 



Some future historian of our science will 

 have a very interesting opportunity to 

 trace and to describe the characterizing 

 features of the so-called 'modem' psychol- 

 ogy, and the alleged discoveries made by 

 its devotees. The name of this science 

 and its titular emplojnnent in the writing 

 of books are a little bit younger than the 

 discoveiy of America. It is, perhaps, both 

 too early and too venturesome to suggest 

 that there might be some mystic connection 

 between that name and that historic event. 

 The habilitation of the lore incorporated 

 under that name as a 'science' began just 

 half a century ago. Lotze's ' Medicinische 

 Psychologic' appeared in 1852, and that 

 year must be regarded as the beginning of 

 the new psychological calendar. Some 

 twenty years later Wundt's 'Grundziige 

 der Physiologisehe Psychologic' appeared 

 (1874), and about a quarter of a century 

 passed before the first distinct experimental 

 institute for the psychologist had its be- 

 ginning at Leipzig (1878). After thirty 

 years America had its first laboratory 



* A paper i)repare(i for the Eleventh Annual 

 Mrcting of tlic American Psychological As.socia- 

 tion. Dpccmhor .SO, 1002 to .Taniiarv 1. 1903, at 

 W'a.shinglon, D. C. 



