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 486 NOTES. auditory feelings. Here he omits to note that this is the view actually taken by Prof. Bain, and that it is supported by the observations of Strieker, who, on the basis of introspection as well as of physiology, con- tends for exactly this active element in the perception of musical sounds. THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY FOR THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY (22 Albemarle Street, W.). The papers read since our last record have been the following : March 7, " Lotze's Metaphysic," by Mr. A. M. Ogilvie ; March 21, " Dualism in Augustin and Descartes," by Mrs. Brooksbank ; April 4, " Fact and Eight," by Mr. P. Daphne, LL.B. ; April 18, " The Relation of Language to Thought," by Mr. F. C. Conybeare ; May 2, " Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie," by Mr. S. Alexander, V.P. ; and May 16, ""The Ultimate Questions of Philosophy," by Prof. Bain. In every instance the reading of the paper was followed by a discussion. It is intended to print an Abstract of the Society's Proceedings during the present Session, shortly after the close of it. Prof. Thomas Spencer Baynes of St. Andrews died very suddenly on May 30, at a friend's house in London. His health has been very uncertain for many years past, but he had struggled so manfully with the charge he undertook in 1873 of carrying through the 9th Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, that it was hoped he might, with the vigorous aid he has had of late years from a conjoint editor, have seen the end, now approaching, of that stupendous labour. Born at Wellington, Somersetshire, on March 24th, 1823, the son of a Baptist minister, he was at first destined for the pulpit, but, leaving the Baptist Bristol College and passing to Edinburgh University, he came to be chosen, from 1851, as Sir W. Hamilton's assistant in reading lectures, till the year before the disabled philosopher's death in 1856. It was while thus associated with Hamilton that he produced, in 1852, his New Analytic of Logical Forms, after having issued his translation of the Port Royal Logic in the previous year. He was also an active writer in the field of general literature (contributing especially to the Edinburgh Guardian). On leaving Edinburgh, he worked for seven years as assistant editor of the Daily Neics, but maintained his philosophical status, as Examiner in the University of London, and could thus in 1864 take up the function of Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and Metaphysics at St. Andrews, in succession to Spalding. Though his work from that time continued to be in great part literary, his concern for philosophy was shown by the pro- minence given to the subject, in all its departments, throughout the new edition of the Encyc. Brit. He had a character of remarkable charm, and dies regretted by an unusually wide circle of attached friends. Brain, with Part xxxvii. (April), has become the organ of the Neurologi- cal Society of London, founded last year, and is now edited by Dr. A. de Watteville exclusively. The Part is almost wholly occupied with a long paper (pp. 89) by Dr. Bastian on " The Muscular Sense," followed by a "Discussion" (pp. 89-137). Both paper and discussion are touched upon at p. 431 above, and will be returned to later on. Announcement has been made, since February, of the proposed issue at an early date of a quarterly journal to be entitled the American Journal of Psychology, under the editorship of Prof. Stanley Hall of the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore. It will contain : (1) Original contributions of a scientific character ; (2) Papers from other journals ; (3) Digests and Reviews. While articles of unusual importance in the fields of logic, the history of philosophy, practical ethics and education, will be welcomed, the main object of the journal will be to record the progress of scientific psychology, and special prominence will be given to methods of research. It will be