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201 



that; but the sanity of the distributiou 

 may safely be left to him who is ready to 

 wade through the material for himself. 

 The possible modification of the results 

 thus obtained through the qualities of oiir 

 arbitrary unit must also not be overlooked. 



edly philosophical. The last two meetings 

 indicate a noticeable diminution of interest 

 and activity in all these directions, except 

 possibly that of the philosophical group. 

 Only two meetings, the seventh and the 

 eighth, have brought forth something in 



Type of Communication. 



Historical 



Theoretical 



Descriptive 



Experimental 



Comparative 



Genetic 



Pieces of apparatus shown or described. _ 



Physical and physiological 5 S 



Pedagogy and the application of p.sychology £"s 



Philosophical 5 « 



Discussions with the naturalists S^ 



Miscellaneous *§. 



1 



Totals 



Percentages 



"■■ai 1 



1 



21 



7+ 



(5)^ 

 24 



8+ 



■3 ' 5 



19 23 37 41 



7— 8+114—15- 



18+ 



7+ 



12 4+ 



25 9— 



23 8+ 



86 30+ 



7 3— 



25 9— 



2810— 



20 7+ 



12 4+ 



3412+ 



4 1+ 



7 3— 



283 



• Five papers were offered, but not read, nor mentioned by title. 



Resorting- again to a statistical indica- 

 tion of the type of psychologizing devel- 

 oped under the sponsorship of the associa- 

 tion, we find this summary presenting the 

 following scale of interests. In ten years 

 the association has countenanced eighty-six 

 items of an experimental character, thirty- 

 four philosophical, twenty-eight on appa- 

 ratus, twenty-five theoretical, twenty-five 

 genetic, twenty-three descriptive, twenty 

 physical and physiological, twelve histor- 

 ical, twelve pedagogical, seven compara- 

 tive, seven miscellaneous and four discus- 

 sions outside. A detailed study of this 

 table shows some interesting contrasts, 

 which the reader can not fail to detect. 

 Attention may be called to some of them. 

 The first, sixth, second, third, seventh and 

 eighth meetings have been predominantly 

 experimental in the order named. The 

 fifth and ninth meetings have been mark- 



every direction. The pedagogical interests 

 of the science have had the smallest dis- 

 tribution, having been in evidence at only 

 six meetings. In spite of the apparently 

 shifting interests, the association may claim 

 for itself a scientific and inductive char- 

 acter. Forty per cent, of the material be- 

 longs to the experimental and apparatus 

 items alone. And more than eleven per 

 cent, properly contributes to the develop- 

 mental point of \aew. 



Not to undertake a discussion of the 

 contributive values of the papers to the 

 growth of the science is a restriction we 

 have placed upon this historical survey, 

 and the relative merits of the contributions 

 made under each heading we refrain from 

 discussing, except the one instance of the 

 presidential addresses, to which we now 

 turn. 



