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SCIENCE. 



787 



C. Warren, of Princeton University. The 

 editors announce that beginning with January 

 15, there will be issued monthly a literary 

 section devoted especially to reviews of the 

 literature. 



The British Journal of Psychology, edited 

 by Professor James Ward and Dr. W. H. R. 

 Rivers, of Cambridge University, with the co- 

 operation of Messrs. W. McDougall, C. S. 

 Myers, A. F. Shand, C. S. Sherrington and 

 W. G. Smith. The first number will be pub- 

 lished in January by the Cambridge Univer- 

 sity Press and the parts will thereafter be 

 issued at irregular intervals, about 450 pages 

 constituting a volume, the price of which is 

 15s. The following papers will appear in 

 early numbers : 



J. Ward: 'On the Definition of Psychology.' 



C. S. SiiERRi.vGTOX: 'On the Interrelation be- 

 tween Corresponding Retinal Points.' 



J. L. McIxTYRE: 'A Sixteenth Century Psy- 

 chologist, Bernardino Telesio.' 



W. McDougall : ' The Sensations Excited by a 

 Single Momentary Stimulation of the Eye.' 



C. S. Myers : ' The Taste-names of Primitive 

 Peoples.' 



R. Latta : ' A Case of Recovery from Congenital 

 Blindness.' 



W. H. R. RrvERS : ' Observations on the Senses 

 of the Todas.' 



Also papers by F. \V. Mott, A. F. Shand, H. 

 Head and others. 



The Proceedings of the Psychological Society 

 will also be published in the Journal. 



Mr. F. Shiluxgton Seales will, from Jaif- 

 uary next, edit in Enoivledge the columns de- 

 voted to microscopy; still further space is to 

 be given to this subject in our contemporary 

 in the new year. 



The catalogue division of the Library of 

 Congress has sent to press, and will issue 

 shortly, through the office of card distribution, 

 a set of analytics for Engler-PrantTs ' Die 

 natiirlichen Pflanzcnfamilien.' Each article 

 (family) in this important set of monographs 

 will be represented by a separate catalogue 

 card, which contains full bibliographical in- 

 formation, including exact dates of publica- 

 tion for undated signatures. Beside subject 

 headings, all added entries will be printed in 

 full. The cards covering the unfinished por- 



tions of the work will be issued upon the 

 completion of the volumes in question. The 

 number of titles now going to press is 458, 

 and the total number of cards necessary for 

 main entries, subjects and added entries will 

 be 936. These may be obtained at the office 

 of card distribution. The task of analyzing 

 this and other collective works of similar im- 

 portance, titles of which will be announced 

 later, has been performed by Mr. J. Christian 

 Bay. Owing to the exacting demands of 

 necessary work in other directions, the library 

 has so far undertaken but little work of this 

 character. 



DlSCUaSIOy and CORRESPOyOEXCE. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCI.VTION FOR THE AD\ANCE- 

 MENT Of SCIENCE. 



To THE Editor of Science : As the St. Louis 

 meeting of the American Association and its 

 allied societies is drawing near, I beg the 

 privilege of making, through the columns of 

 Science, a suggestion to those, who I hope are 

 many, intending to appear before Section B 

 at that meeting. I think the general opinion 

 of those who attended the Washington meet- 

 ings of this section and of the Physical So- 

 ciety, which cooperated, is that the matter 

 presented was, as a rule, very good, and that 

 the manner of presentation was, as a rule, 

 very bad. The habit of us physicists is to 

 put in, before the meeting, a very modest 

 claim for time, ten or fifteen minutes, when 

 we have ample material for twenty or twenty- 

 five, and then when we have the floor, to pro- 

 ceed as if we were giving a one-hour lecture 

 in a course rimning through the year. Very 

 few of our talks at society or association meet- 

 ings give the impression of being thoroughly 

 thought out, with a view not only to the sub- 

 ject, but to the audience as well. What we 

 call ' papers ' are apt to be rather disordered, 

 imperfectly considered remarks about our 

 papers, which in some cases are still to be 

 written. 



My suggestion is that every man who in- 

 tends to make a communication to Section B 

 at the coming meeting shall ask for as much 

 time on the program as he is at all likely to 

 need, and that, keeping his time allotment 



