in connection with it; and now the new Clark Universi ty i s making the 

 most extensive provision for both studying and teaching the subject in 

 every branch, while Yale, Princeton, and Columbia are all pressing ener- 

 getically onward in the same direction. Moreover, apart from the 

 position which Psychology has lately won for itself as an independent 

 branch of work, the psychologic teaching at a university is most 

 intimately associated with the general philosophic teaching, and it 

 is highly important for Harvard that its philosophical department 

 should not lose the pre-eminent position which for many years past 

 it has been universal 1 y aeknowl edged to hold in the educational system 

 of America. 



At Harvard, however, the old laboratory, which is now no longer 

 fitly equipped either for the prosecution of original work or for 

 teaching the subject, is all that exists to work with. In order to 

 give the new department the efficiency which its importance deserves, 

 an expenditure of at least three thousand dollars will be necessary. 

 Money is urgently needed for the purchase of various anatomical 

 models, for museum specimens to illustrate the development of the 

 brain and the nervous system in both the higher animals and the 

 lower, for microscopes and specimens of microscopic anatomy, for a 

 number of expensive but absolutely essential instruments of precision 

 for the accurate measurement of time and movement, for various appa- 

 ratus required for the lecture-room demonstration of the physiology 

 of the senses, especially those of sight and sound, and for a small 



