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NEED OF A SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 51 danger of mistaking individual peculiarities for general laws, and transform it from the study of individual minds into a true and valid science of mind. Such in outline is a working scheme for a Society of Experimental Psychology. Is it workable ? That depends on two considerations the number of workers and the amount of work we could find for them to do. As regards a possible dearth of workers, we cannot know about this till we try. A psychological journal, MIND, has reached the tenth year of its existence. London University has for the last quarter of a century required a knowledge of psychology from all its Bachelors. There are two philosophical clubs in London, and most universities have similar institutions attached to them. Cambridge has of late years been turning out trained students of psychology who have had the benefit of Prof. Sidgwick's and Mr. James Ward's teaching. Re- cently many educationists have had to pass an examination in mental science. Surely among all these a sufficient band of workers could be organised if we but knew how to get at them. And, in addition to these, the recent advance in female education has been preparing many minds as subjects of experiment who have plenty of leisure for introspection. Besides we do not want investigators so much as objects of investigation investigates, if we may so call them. It would be indeed strange if we could not find a sufficient number of persons interested in introspection in a country like England, which has shown itself pre-eminent in the two arts fiction and the drama which have closest connexion with psychology. And the mention of fiction reminds me of a quite unworked field for psychologists which a society might cultivate. For the last fifty years we have had a large number of persons whose life has been passed in examining and exhibiting the processes of other men's minds. From their experience the science of human nature ought to be able to learn something. I need only refer to the stores of acute observation contained in .the works of George Eliot and George Meredith. As regards the number of unsolved problems which could be found suitable for collective investigation, there is less difficulty. There is the whole field of psychophysical inquiry now being worked so zealously by physiologists and by the school of Fechner and Wundt in Germany. We have here begun to measure men's minds by measuring their senses. Observation on children's minds, as attemp- ted by Charles Darwin, has almost grown into a separate study, to which the apt name of Baby-lore has been given.