RECORDS Of MEET IX a t< 41;i 



SECTION OF AXTHEOPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOrxY 



19 April, 1915 



Section met in conjunction with the New York Branch of the Amer- 

 ican Psychological Association at Columbia Uni\'ersity, Professor E. S. 

 Woodworth presiding. 



The following programme was offered : 



G. 0. Ferguson, Eelative PEitFORMANCE of Negroes and Whites 



IX Some Mextal Tests. 



Hobert A. Cummins, Distributiox of Time ix School Exercises. 



H. A. Ruger, Eeport ox Experimexts with the Hamptox 



Court Maze. 



M. R. Trabue, Completion Tests ^vith Public School Chil- 



dren. 



Mark A. May, Ax Experimental Study ix Values. 



Will S. Monroe, The Study of Foreigx Laxguages ix Eel at j ox 



TO Standing in Psychology. 



L. H. Horton, Sciextific Method ix the Ixterpretatiox of 



Dreams. 



Gary C. Myers, Studies in Eecall. 



Summary of Papers 



Mr. Ferguson said in abstract: Tests were niadi' iij^oii IrSC) wliitc and 

 421 colored pupils in the grammar and high-school grades of Eichmond, 

 Fredericksburg and Newport News. Virginia. In the Woodworth and 

 Wells "Mixed Eelations'' test, and in the Trabue "Completion" test, the 

 colored children scored approximately three fourths as high as the white 

 children ; in the "Columbia Straight ^laze" test there was no appreciable 

 racial difference in ability; in a cancellation test the colored girls were 

 slightly superior to the white girls, and the colored boys did as well as 

 the white boys. 



The colored pupils were divided into four classes on the basis of racial 

 purity as indicated by skin color, hair texture, and facial and cranial con- 

 formation. In the mixed relations and completion tests, the pure ne- 

 groes, the negroes three fourths pure, the mulattoes, and the quadroons- 

 scored respectively as follows : approximately 60, TO, 80 and 90 per cent, 

 as high as whites. 



The variability of the colored pupils as a whole was fully as great as 

 that of the wliites, likewise the variability of the mulattoes. But the pure 



