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without being regarded as either punctiform or figured; (5) 

 the objection that there is no room in space for anything but 

 matter and motion, and that thoughts and feelings if they 

 were really in the brain would have to be regarded as visible 

 substances between or alongside of the brain molecules, is 

 invalid; for it disregards the fact that sensations are intensive 

 and not extensive, and that they must, therefore, occupy space 

 in the same way as other intensities, such as stresses, velocities, 

 and accelerations, which exist in space along with their matter 

 and not alongside of it. 



The last part of the paper explained and defended the hypoth- 

 esis that mental states are the modes of potential energy (ex- 

 pressible in terms of the higher derivatives of space with regard 

 to time) into which the kinetic energy of the nerve currents 

 must be transformed in order to be redirected. The theory, 

 if true, would justify the belief in interaction without violating 

 the parellelists' contention that the spatial can only be causally 

 related to what is in space. 



R. S. WOODWORTH, 



Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 

 December 4, 1905. 



The Academy met at 8.15 p.m., at the American Museum 

 of Natural History, President Kemp presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.' 

 The Secretary reported from the Council as follows : 



At the meeting of the Council held Nov. 27, at 4 p.m., the 

 following officers were nominated for the year 1906, according 

 to the By-Laws: 



President, N. L. Britton. 



Vice-Presidents, Edmund Otis Hovey, H. E. Crampton, C. C. 

 Trowbridge, Robert MacDougall. 



Corresponding Secretary, Richard E. Dodge. 

 Recording Secretary, William M. Wheeler. 



