280 ANNALS NEW YORE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



At the termination of the lecture, the Academy held a reception for its 

 friends in the Memorial Hall of the Museum at which a collation was 

 served. 



The Section then adjourned. 



C. C. Trowbridge, 



Secretary pro tern. 



SECTION OF ANTHEOPOLOGY AXD PSYCHOLOGY 



28 April, 1913 



The Section met in conjunction with the New York Branch of the 

 American Psychological Association at Columbia University, Professor 

 R. S. Woodworth presiding. 



The following programme was offered : 



J. McKeen Cattell, Families of American Men of Science. 



Clara Jean Weidensall, A Comparison of the Records of the 



Criminal Woman and the AYorking 

 Child in a Series of Mental Tests. 



A. E. Rejall, The Mentality of Boys in the New York 



Probationary School — Public School 

 120 — AS Determined by the Binet- 

 SiMON Test. 



George F. Williamson, Some Individual Differences in Immedi- 

 ate Memory Span. 



Mabel Barrett, The Order of Merit Method and the 



Method op Paired Comparisons. 



E. K. Strong, Jr., Effect of Size and Frequency on Perma- 



nence OF Impression. 



A. T. Pofifenberger, Jr., The Effects of Strychnine on Mental 



AND Motor Efficiency. 



Summary of Papers 



Professor Cattell 's paper has been published in full in Science. 



Mr. Rejall said: The New York City Probationary School, formerly 

 Public School 120, located on the "Lower East Side" of Manhattan, be- 

 came in 1905 a school for the detention and care of incorrigible boys in 

 New York City. Boys attending this school constitute as a class a rough, 

 rebellious, uncontrollable group, and are sent to the school for the follow- 

 ing reasons, given in order of their frequency : truancy, insubordination, 

 theft, immorality and violation of the Child Labor Law. 



