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SCIENCE. 



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to this and that V These are the questions 

 that come up for answer. 



Into those questions we cannot here enter. 

 Let it be sufficient for you, in this lecture, 

 to liave learned the names and characters 

 of the simplest items of mental experience — 

 of those items which are always and in- 

 variably present in our concrete, every-daj' 

 experiences. Draw for youi-selves an out- 

 line map of mind. You must make three 

 countries, as it were, within that map. Ideas 

 must go in in one color to the right ; eftbrts 

 in another to the left ; and feelings will lie 

 in the middle between the two. And you 

 must suppose that each of these three terri- 

 tori(?s has an independent government ; but 

 that their governments are very friendly, 

 and often take joint action — indeed, that 

 they hardly ever think of taking action of 

 themselves. Especially must you conceive 

 that both idea and eftbrt have right of way 

 through any part of the dominion of feeling; 

 and that the communications are so open, 

 and the relations so close, that scarcely any- 

 thing can affect idea or eftbrt, from the out- 

 side or from the inside, that does not also 

 exert an effect upon feeling. The detailed 

 survey of the three territories, and the laj'ing 

 down of roads through them for the student 

 to follow — that is the further Inisiness of 

 Psychology. E. B. Titchexek. 



LOSS OF PROFESSOR MILXES SEJSMOLOGI- 



CAL APP.UiATrs, LIBRARY AXD 



COLLECTIOX. 



Every one interested in Seismologj- 



knows of the great work done by Professor 



John Milne. F. R. S.. during a residence of 



nearly a quarter of a century in Japan, 



which countrj- became, a decade ago, the 



earthquake lahoratorj^ of the world. 



Through his interest, and that which lie 



kindled in other foreign residents, the Seis- 



mological Society of Japan was organized 



about fifteen years ago. During its active 



existence its Annual Reports contained the 



most important contributions to Seismology 

 anywhere published, and it is not too much 

 to say that the work of this Society amount- 

 ed to a revolution in the methods of obser- 

 vation and research. To its Transactions, 

 Professor Milne was bj^ far the largest con- 

 tributor. When the rapid decrease of the 

 number of foreign scientific men resident in 

 Japan threatened the life of the Society, 

 he tactfully enlisted the support and co- 

 operation of the Japanese. The issue, by 

 the University, of an extensive and valu- 

 able series of scientific memoirs, tended, 

 naturally, to divert much of the active in- 

 terest which they for a time manifested, 

 and a few years ago the publication of the 

 Transactions of the Seismological Society 

 ceased. Professor Milne was not discouraged 

 however, and at his own risk and expense 

 at once substituted a periodical which he 

 called the ' Seismological Journal," which 

 he has continued to issue at gi'cat pe- 

 cuniary loss and which contains many val- 

 iiable and important contributions to the 

 science. 



During all of these years, with a tireless 

 and inexhaustible industry and a rare in- 

 genuity of design and wealth of mechanical 

 resource, he had invented, constructed and 

 put into use a variety of earthquake detect- 

 ors, recorders, measurers, wave and tremor 

 registers and even earthquake ' avoidei-s ' or 

 ' nullitiers,' which, with the numerous de- 

 vices and inventions of other foreign stu- 

 dents of Seismology in Japan, the value of 

 which he was quick to recognize and utilize, 

 constituted a collection the like of which 

 never existed before. Besides these instru- 

 mental appliances Pi-ofessor Milne had ac- 

 cumulated an extensive and valuable library 

 of Seismology, including many early and 

 rare pamphlets and volumes and almost 

 everything published on the subject during 

 the past fifteen yeai-s. 



His connection with the Japanese Gov- 

 ernment is shortly to terminate, and he had 



