Page:The Scientific Monthly vol. 3.djvu/108

 THE SCIEyTIFIC MOXTIII.Y

��. llnoKKI

also there liave lieeti ilistiuguitihed leail- Hketches psj-ohologists aa follows from

ers, but, on the whole, the tout riliiit ion the different nstionB: United States,

of that country la st'ienee has oome 95; Germanj,;i7: Great Britain, .10;

from the large nunilier of individuals Austria-Hungary. 13; France. 12;

engaged in scientific research at the Italy, 12; SwitMrlanil, 10; Russia, Hol-

uiiiversities. In the past the United |an,| ^mi Norway, each 6. States has not produced scientific lead- f„ „„ f„ ^s the apparent su]«?rior-

er, comparable to English scientific jfj ^f America in psychology is due to

men of the nineteenth century or uum- ,^g f^^^ ^^^^^ .^^ j^ „ „^^ ^-iew^, the

Iws of able investigators equal to those ^.^^^j^^ ^^^ ^^^^ j^,,^,^^ j„ j,,^^^ directio.i*

of Germany. But it may be that we .^ ,,^j emphasized. We are pronding have l)een gradually assuming a position . ■, c i. i - n .u

,, , opportunity for research work in all the

in which we are con tri but nig to the. c ■. .i.

, . .. ■ r n sciences, and me may be confident that

advancement o* scipnce nn tprma of '

science with which the writer of this

note ie concerned may be takeu as an

example, it may be clain.,Hi that we |.ro- "'<"'^. "' *« K'^"* ""t'""" "^ ^""1*

diu-ed in William .lames the greatest ""at peculiar resiKinsibility is thrown

contemporary psychologist, and we ay- "I""' >"•■ We may also hope that the

I*ar to have more competent workers IP«»oii of the war to us will be thai the

in psychology than any other nation. I>est preparation:

"Who's Who in Science" an English development of ■

publication, select w for biographical!

��' ... .. ,. Te .1. 'be ability exists and only

with these nations. If the ...

��? to exhibit itself. The war v >ple the resources iu men a

�� �