RECORDS 509 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



November 26, 1900. 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Prof. J. McK. Cattell presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting of Section was read and ap- 

 proved. 



The name of one candidate for resident membership was read 

 and referred to the Council according to the By-laws. 



The following program was then offered : 



R. S. Woodworth, Paris Congress of Psychology. 



Clark Wissler, Correlation of Anthropometric Tests. 



E. L. Thorndike and R. S. Woodworth, Effects of Special 

 Training on General Ability. 



C. H. Judd, Movements of Writing. 



Summary of Papers. 



The report of the Paris Congress presented by Dr. Wood- 

 worth was more detailed than the published accounts, and also 

 suggested certain questions in regard to the enlargement and 

 control of American representation at similar congresses in the 

 future. 



The paper by Mr. Wissler reported some results of a series 

 of mental and physical tests upon students in Columbia and 

 Barnard College. The young women of Barnard College were 

 found to be superior to Columbia freshmen in the tests for time 

 of perception, naming of colors and resistance to pressure ; they 

 were equal to the freshmen in rate of fatigue, perception of 

 weights, sensation areas, perception of size and logical memory ; 

 they were inferior in size of head, strength of hand, reaction 

 time, association time and auditory memory. There is some 

 probability that the young women are superior in perception of 

 pitch and inferior in movement time. With the freshmen who 

 repeated the test in their senior year an improvement was found 

 in all except sensation areas and perception of size, though the 

 difference in some cases is slight. It was also found that the 

 seniors showed a decided tendency to hold the same relative 



