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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVIII. No. 450. 



Table II. 



Classificatiox of Communications Received by the American Psychological 

 Association, 1892-1902. — Continued. 



Rubrics of the Psychulogical Judex. 



5. Nervous Diseases 



«. General 



b. Neurasthenia and General Paralysis 



c. Epilepsy and Hysteria 



il. Other Neuroses 



6. Mental Disease 



a. General (Insanity) 



b. Idiocy, Imbecility, etc 



c. Other Special Psychoses 



7. Medical Jurisprudence 



X. Genetic, Individual and Social Psychology 



1. Evolution and Heredity 



2. Comparative Psychology 



3. Mental Development 



a. General ; Adolescence and Senescence 



6. Child Psychology 



c. Pedagogy 



4. Individual, Sex and Class Psychology 



5. Folk Psychology 



t>. Social Psychology 



7. Race Psychology 



a. Criminology 



b. Degeneration . . . .^. 



Physical and Mental Test Reports (not included above) 



Totals 



one on genetic, individual and social psy- 

 chology and eleven reports on physical and 

 mental tests, making an aggregate of two 

 hundred and eighty-three communications 

 the association has received. Thirty-eight 

 of the eighty-eight topics listed by 'The 

 Psychological Index' have remained barren 

 throughout the ten years, not having re- 

 ceived a single notice. They comprise al- 

 most one half of the whole field so listed, 

 showing a rather surprising lack of breadth 

 of treatment. It should be observed, how- 

 ever, that these topics are largely patho- 

 logical in scope. It is unnecessary here to 

 recount these special topics, which are 

 readily traced in the table. 



If one wishes to ascertain the points 

 emphasized in the work of the association 

 thus represented, and learn what have 

 been the lines of dominant interest express- 

 ing themselves, he may take numbers as 

 indicative thereof. Arranged in the order 

 beginning with the maximum and ending 

 with the minimum, the summary shows the 

 following results, of course presupposing 

 that all the material has been of a dis- 

 tinctly psychological character : General 

 (56), sensation (53), genetic, social and 



individual psychology (41), higher mani- 

 festation of mind (39), cognition (34), 

 conation and movement (17), characters 

 of consciousness (13), mental tests (11), 

 sleep, trance and pathology (10), anatomy 

 and physiology of the nervous system (7), 

 affection (2). 



This topical arrangement offers only the 

 advantages of a cross-section view of the 

 ten years, and is, therefore, inadequate to 

 point out the more interesting perspective 

 of the drifts and tendencies which may be 

 taken to mark the ups and downs of in- 

 terest in so far as they may have been 

 evoked by the association. I have, there- 

 fore, redistributed the material under such 

 rubrics as, it seems to me, more adequately 

 point out the methods, types of interest, 

 and perhaps results, which are 'what we 

 chiefly seek in the historical way. The 

 selection of the headings employed in 

 Table III., such as 'historical,' 'theoretical,' 

 'descriptive,' 'experimental,' etc., must be 

 left to justify itself. It need scarcely be 

 added that in the preparation of this table, 

 as was the case in the preceding table, re- 

 curring diiSculty was encountered in tab- 

 bing off a paper under this topic, or under. 



