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At the present time, according to a re- 

 cent inquiry,* this varied experimental 

 equipment is found in forty colleges and 

 universities in the United States, besides 

 a few private laboratories and those con- 

 nected with a few pathological institutions. 

 The list includes twenty-six educational 

 institutions additional to those named 

 above. Arranged in alphabetical order 

 these are Amherst, Bryn Jlawr, California, 

 Chicago, Cincinnati, Colorado, Dennison, 

 Illinois, Leland Stanford Jr., j\Iinnesota, 

 Missouri, ilt. liolyoke, Xew York, North- 

 western, Oregon, Princeton, Randolph- 

 Macon Woman's College, Smith, State Col- 

 lege, Teachers College, Tufts Medical 

 School, Ursinus, Vassar, Washington, 

 Wells, Wesleyan (Conn.). Twenty -six of 

 these institutions are private, and fourteen 

 are public (state). This distribution is 

 strongly suggestive of the query, whether 

 scientific psychology is purely academic, 

 or whether it is lacking in that practical 

 aspect and value sufficient to secure legis- 

 lative appropriation of public moneys for 

 its equipment and maintenance. Here, at 

 least, is a practical problem of policy for 

 our association to consider. It is known 

 that a number of educational departments 

 in some colleges and some normal schools 

 have facilities for teaching psychology, but 

 the exact data are not available. Accord- 

 ing to my present information, twenty-five 

 per cent, of the men who are operating 

 these laboratories and giving instruction in 

 psychology as experimental have been 

 trained in the Leipzig Institute. Scarcely 

 any three of our American institutions can 

 e<|ual this representation and influence in 

 this particular direction. We should not 

 fail properly to interpret this interesting 

 item of training in our American psy- 

 chology. 



* Made by Dr. E. B. Huey, who has kindly sup- 

 plied me with the following data. 



This is not the time, nor is there space, 

 til go into the minuter details of the work 

 that has been done in these institutions 

 during the ten years. That there have 

 been persistent efforts made in these work- 

 shops of inquiry is well attested by the 

 growing list of experimental studies ap- 

 pearing in the two American periodicals and 

 the number of rather private publications. 

 During the decennium The Amirican 

 Journal of FsycJiology and llie Psycliolocj- 

 ical h'cvicw (founded in 1894) have pub- 

 lished over eleven thousand pages of re- 

 search, critical and review literature, 

 almost equalh- divided between them. The 

 latter has issued seventeen monographic 

 studies in p.sychology in its special series 

 of Monograph Supplements, begun in 1895. 

 Lesser foundations for psychological pub- 

 lications are the Studies from the Yale'Psy- 

 rhological Laboratory, begun in 1893, the 

 I'nivcrsity of Iowa Studies in Psychology, 

 begun in 1897. Numerous articles on 

 psychology have appeared in The Monist 

 (founded 1890), the Open Court (founded 

 1887), and the Philosophical Review (es- 

 tablished in 1892) has devoted a large por- 

 tion of its pages to specific discussions in 

 our science. Several universities, such 

 as Chicago, Columbia and Cornell, have 

 university serial publications, generally en- 

 titled contributions to philosophy, psychol- 

 ogy and education, in which psychological 

 studies frequently find place. While other 

 institutions have bulletins, such as Missouri 

 and Wisconsin, in which more rarely ap- 

 pear investigations of psychological topics, 

 Tlie University of Toronto Studies has a 

 Psychological Series of four issues. Very 

 recently there have appeared additions to 

 these more special modes -of pul)lication, 

 such as Witmer's Experimental Studies in 

 Psychology and Pedagogy, and Investiga- 

 tions of the Department of Psychology and 

 Kducatian of the University of Colorado. 



