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SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



January 25, 1905. 



The regular meeting of the section was held on January 25, 

 at the American Museum of Natural History, in conjunction with 

 the New York Branch of the American Psychological Associ- 

 ation. Afternoon and evening sessions were held, the members 

 dining together between sessions. The program was as follows : 



Henry Rutgers Marshall, Primary and Secondary 

 Presentations. 



Margaret E. Washburn, The Generic Relation of 

 Organic Sensation and Simple Feeling. 



Francis Burke Brandt, The Universe's Place in Man. 



Walter F. Dearborn, Retinal Local Signs. 



Henry Davies, Dewey's "Studies in Logical Theory." 



Robert MacDougall, The Distribution of Errors in 

 Spelling English Words. 



Irving King, The Ultimate Relation between Magic 

 and Religion. 



Summary of Papers. 



Dr. Marshall in his paper aimed to present evidence that pre- 

 sentations are always new presentations, and that, therefore, 

 images can not be properly said to be copies of impressions, nor 

 can what we call representations be properly said to be duplica- 

 tions of any presentations which have previously existed. His 

 paper was a summary of an article which is presently to appear 

 in Mind. 



In his paper Dr. Brandt emphasized the necessity for a fresh 

 start in modern empirical investigation through a critical restate- 

 ment of the postulates of experience. The starting point of 

 every empirical science, it was contended, is individual conscious 

 experience. The primary datum of individual experience is a 

 perceptive and a conceptive consciousness combined organically 

 in the unity of a personal life existent in a universe of persons. 

 The material universe thus primarily takes its place in man rather 

 than man his place in the material universe, for scientific philos- 



