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 THE AMERICAN

Journal of Psychology

Vol. I. NOVEMBER, 1887 No. 1

EDITORIAL NOTE.

The object of this Journal is to record the psychological work of a scientific, as distinct from a speculative character, which has been so widely scattered as to be largely inaccessible save to a very few, and often to be overlooked by them. Several depart- ments of science, sometimes bo distinct from each other that their contributions are not mutually known, have touched and enriched psychology, bringing to it their best methods and their clearest insights. It is from this circumstance that the Vilst P r °- gress made in this department of late years is so little realized, and the field for such a journal, although new, is already so large.

Among the readers whose studies the editor will bear in mind are these : teachers of psychology in higher institutions of learn- ing ; biologists and physiologists ; anthropologists who are inter- ested in primitive manifestations of psychological laws ; physi- cians who give special attention to mental and nervous dis- eases ; all others interested in the great progress recently made in so many directions in applying more exact methods to the study of the problems of human feelings, will and thought. The advance- ment of the science will be constantly kept in view, and the journal will be a record of the progress of investigations.

The journal will consist of three parts.

I. Original contributions of a scientific character. These will consist partly of experimental investigations on the functions of