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{"created":"2022-01-31T15:23:27.574086+00:00","id":"lit8162","links":{},"metadata":{"alternative":"Science, N. S.","contributors":[{"name":"Stratton, George M.","role":"author"}],"detailsRefDisplay":"Science, N. S. 4: 867-868","fulltext":[{"file":"p0867.txt","language":"en","ocr_en":"December 11, 1896.]\nSCIENCE.\n867\nTHE NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT from the batteries of the laboratory and LEIPZIG.\tfrom the general city current. They can\nThe acc^ .npanying plan, published by also be darkened if need be. The other kind permission of Prof. Wundt, shows the eighteen or more rooms are likewise proarrangement and dimensions* of the new vided with both kinds of electric current, rooms into which the Leipzig Institut f\u00fcr and by means of a central switchboard can experimentelle Psychologie has recently moved, be electrically interconnected in such Of these rooms, situated on the second groups as the special investigations require, floor of the magnificent stone structure now Rooms 1 to 5 are arranged more partic-being completed for the University, only ularly for experiments in optics, room 1 those on the west side face the street; the having north light, while the others open others open on large quiet courts, and thus toward the south. ISTo. 2a is the dark room, offer the seclusion so necessary for undis- and adjoining it to the south is its small\n*\tt :-m:v:s:m:i\nturbed experiment. At the same time, the entire set of rooms, except the two lecture halls marked A and B on the plan, are shut off from the rest of the building in which thej7 are situated and are accessible only to members of the Institut.\nThese lecture rooms, with a seating capacity of 420 and 117 respectively, are fully equipped for purposes of demonstration. They are electrically supplied both\n* In meters.\nantechamber provided with an outside platform upon which the heliostat or similar instruments may be placed. No. 3 is the Director\u2019s Room. In rooms Nos. 4 and 5 are kept various pieces of optical apparatus, for instance, the large perimeter and Helmholtz\u2019s double spectroscope. The spaces farther to the west, marked C and D, are occupied by closets and the stairs leading to the laboratory.\nThe meetings for the introductory course","page":867},{"file":"p0868.txt","language":"en","ocr_en":"868\nSCIENCE.\n[N. S. Vol. IV. No. 102.\nby Dr. Meumann, as well as all formal assemblies of the members of the Institut, are held in room 6. Here, too, are the central batteries and the larger pieces of apparatus for demonstration. On the other side of the corridor is the cloak room, marked E, serving also as a storeroom for the charts and diagrams used in the lectures. Ho. 7 is the First Assistant\u2019s room.\nRooms 8 to 12 are arranged more especially for work in acoustics. In Ho. 8, for instance, the large phonometer is set up as a fixture. In room 9 are placed various acoustic instruments ; the room is, moreover, connected by telephone with Ho. 12. Rooms 10 and 11 are for a variety of uses, for chronom\u00e9trie work, or for experiments such as those on \u2018 Zeitsinn.\u2019 Hext to room 11 is a small protective antechamber leading to Ho. 12, the silent room with double partitions and doors. Besides the transmission of sound by telephone, these acoustic rooms permit direct air communication by means of lead pipes. In some cases the pipes are bent around an intermediate room, passing, for instance, from Ho. 9 around Ho. 10 to Ho. 11. In others the pipes pass without bend, directly from one room to the other.\nIn room 13 are lockers for tools and for chemicals. Ho. II is the well-lighted library and reading room.\nGeorge M. Stratton.\nUniversity of California.\nAMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS\u2019 UNION.\nThe Fourteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists\u2019 Union convened in Cambrige, Mass., Monday evening, Hovember 9th. The business meeting was held at the residence of Mr. Charles F. Batchelder. The public sessions, lasting three days, were held in the Hash lecture room of the University Museum, commencing Tuesday, Hovember 10th.\nWilliam Brewster, of Cambridge, Mass.,\nwas reelected President ; Dr. C. Hart Mer-riam and Mr. Robert Ridgway, of Washington, Vice-Presidents ; John H. Sage, of Portland, Conn., Secretary ; Wm. Dutcher, of Hew York, Treasurer ; Charles F. Batch-elder, Major Chas. Bendire, Frank M. Chapman, Chas. B. Cory, Drs. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., A. K. Fisher and L. Stejneger, members of the Council. One active and seventy-eight associate members were elected.\nBy a change in the by-laws ex-Presidents of the Union are now ex-ojjicio members of the Council.\nMr. Wm. Dutcher, Chairman of the Committee on \u2018 Protection of Hortli American Birds,\u2019 read an interesting and most valuable report of the work done by his committee during the past year. This report will be published in The Auk and reprinted as a separate pamphlet.\nThe Union was honored by the presence of Miss Maria R. Audubon, granddaughter of the renowned naturalist. In her behalf Dr. Elliott Coues exhibited some recently discovered manuscript journals of John James Audubon, including the one giving an account of his famous trip up the Missouri river. A vote of thanks was tendered Miss Audubon for her kindness in allowing the manuscript to be seen.\nUnder the title \u2018 Ornithological Publications, Present and Prospective,\u2019 Dr. Elliott Coues laid before the Union an advance copy of the \u2018 Report of the World\u2019s Fair Ornithological Congress,\u2019 and stated that he was engaged in the preparation of a new edition of his \u2018 Key to Horth American Birds.\u2019 He also mentioned other works that would soon be given to the public.\nA prominent feature of the Congress was the open-air talk by Mr. Abbott H. Thayer, demonstrating his theory of the principles of protective coloration.\nMr. Thayer placed three sweet potatoes, or objects of corresponding shape and size, horizontally on a wire a few inches above","page":868}],"identifier":"lit8162","issued":"1896","language":"en","pages":"867-868","startpages":"867","title":"The New Psychological Laboratory at Leipzig","type":"Journal Article","volume":"4"},"revision":0,"updated":"2022-01-31T15:23:27.574091+00:00"}