RECORDS 439 



allanite is evidently not the rare mineral that it was formerly 

 considered to be, and that a careful watch is beginning to show 

 its presence at many localities in the United States. 



Alexis A. Julien, 



Sec?'cfary. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



January 22, 1900. 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Dr. Franz Boas presiding. The 

 name of one candidate for resident membership was read and 

 referred to the Council according to the by-laws. The follow- 

 ing program was then offered : 



Clark Wissler, Some Phenomena of Indirect Vision. 



J. McK. Cattell, On Relations of Time and Space in 

 Vision. 



E. P. Buchner, On Number Forms. 



Summary of Papers. 



Mr. Wissler described experiments that were made by ex- 

 posing small letters or numerals in the indirect field of vision, 

 while the attention of the observer was fully occupied with 

 objects in the direct field. The subjects were not conscious 

 of seeing the characters presented in the indirect field, indeed, 

 one of the subjects whose results was reported did not know 

 until several tests had been made that the characters were 

 there at all. In spite of this failure to receive conscious ex- 

 pressions from the letters and figures, two subjects were found 

 who could by association and afterwards by memory, give in 

 a large number of cases the correct numeral or letter. These 

 subjects made their associations in the form of visualized images. 

 Many of the errors made were similar to those made in normal 

 vision. Thus, c was mistaken for 0, jj for 55, etc. It was 

 held that the experiments suggest a relation between normal 

 phenomena and the abnormal as seen in the hysterical eye, and 



