October 30, 1896.] 



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These included a reception in the Rath- 

 haus, given by the city of Munich, at 

 which Professors Richet (France), Baldwin 

 (U. S. A.), Sidgwick (England), Tokarsky 

 (Kussia), Sergi (Italy), Flournoy (Switzer- 

 land), Heymans (Holland), Saliger (Aus- 

 tria), and Geijer (Scandanavia), represent- 

 ing their respective countries, brought greet- 

 ings to the land whence had come much of 

 the impetus to the present work in the sci- 

 ence. Wednesday noon, the Congress was 

 invited to partake of a ' Friihschoppen,' 

 and to view the arrangements of the 

 ' Brauerei zum Spaten;' the same evening, 

 in honor of the Congress, there was a pres- 

 entation of ' Don Giovanni ' in the Boyal 

 theatre. The next noon the English and 

 the American members lunched together, 

 and in the evening there was a Congress 

 dinner. A lawn party and an excursion on 

 the Starnberger Sea, which had been ar- 

 ranged, were given up on account of the 

 weather, and in place of the latter, on Fri- 

 day evening, there was another informal re- 

 ception, bringing the Congress to a close. 



At the business meetings it was decided 

 to hold the next Congress at Paris in 1900. 

 The following of&cers were then elected : 

 President, Prof. Th. Eibot ; Vice-President, 

 Prof. Ch. Bichet ; General Secretary, Prof. 

 Pierre Janet; all from Paris. In addition 

 to these of&cers, the following were ap- 

 pointed as members of the international 

 committee of organization: Professors A. Bi- 

 net (Paris), P. Flechsig (Leipzig), H. Eb- 

 binghaus (Breslau) , Th. Lipps (Munich) , C. 

 Stumpf (Berlin), H. Sidgwick (Cambridge, 

 Eng.), G. F. Stout (Cambridge, Eng.), J. 

 Sully (London), W. James (Cambridge, 

 U. S. A.), J. M. Baldwin (Princeton), E. 

 B. Titchener (Ithaca, N. Y.), E. Morselli 

 (Genua), G. Sergi (Rome), S. Exner (Vi- 

 enna), and G. Heymans (Groningen, Hol- 

 land). 



The work of the Congress was divided 

 into general and sectional sessions. In the 



first general session the President, Prof. C. 

 Stumpf (Berlin), after formally opening the 

 Congress, read his presidential address and 

 then presented the Minister of the Interior 

 for Church and School Afi"airs of Bavaria, 

 Count von Landmann, who welcomed the 

 Congress to Germany and to Bavaria in the 

 name of the government. The vice-mayor, 

 Bllrgermeister Brunner, next welcomed the 

 Congress in the name of the city of Munich, 

 and the rector of the University, Prof, von 

 Baur, gave a welcome from the University. 

 Then followed a paper by Prof. Charles 

 Eichet (Paris), 'On Pain,' and one by 

 Prof, von Liszt (Halle), on 'Criminal Ac- 

 countability.' At the second general session 

 papers were read by Prof. P. Flechsig 

 (Leipzig), ' The Association Centers in the 

 Human Brain ' (with anatomical demon- 

 stration); Prof. G. Sergi (Eome), 'Where 

 is the Seat of the Emotions ?' and Prof. W. 

 Preyer (Wiesbaden), 'The Psychology of 

 the Child.' The third general session in- 

 cluded the following papers: Prof. F. Bren- 

 tano (Vienna) , ' Theory of Sensation;' Prof. 

 Pierre Janet (Paris), ' The Hypnotic Influ- 

 ence and the Necessity of Caution in its 

 Use;' Prof. H. Ebbinghaus (Breslau), 'A 

 New Method for Testing Mental Capabili- 

 ties and its Application to School Children;' 

 Prof. Th. Lipps (Munich), ' The Idea of the 

 Unconscious in Psychology.' The remain- 

 der of the papers presented were read in 

 sectional meetings. The divisions into 

 which the work was separated were as fol- 

 lows: 



I. Anatomy and physiology of the brain 

 and the sense organs. Psychology of the 

 senses. Psycho-physics, 



II. Psychology of the normal individual. 



III. Pathological and criminal psychol- 

 ogy- 



IV. Psychology of sleep, dreams, hypno- 

 tism, and allied phenomena. 



V. Comparative and educational psy- 

 chology. 



