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...Rutan and Coolidge, the successors of Richardson, are to stand in the center of the broad plain occupying the greater part of the tract. The purpose of the plan, so far as represented, is: first, to provide for convenient and economical use, by large numbers, of the means of research and instruction to be offered in the central buildings; second, to provide in the arrangements devised for this purpose an outward character, suitable to the climate of the locality that will serve to foster the growth of refined, but simple and inexpensive tastes; third, to favor the formation, in connection...
...with those obtained by a similar examination of other objects and phenomena, endeavoring to ascertain what they may have in common. Thus he is prepared to formulate general statements. From such inductions he proceeds to justifiable deductions. and thence to inductions of higher orders. His most useful instruments of research are hypothesis and experiment. The demands made by the scientific method wherever employed are very numerous, but of these only, four need now be considered: (1) Singleness of purpose, the only object being the attainment of truth. All preconceived notions liable to mislead must be laid aside. (2) Directness...
...American Society for Psychical Research held a public meeting last Wednesday evening in the rooms of the Boston Natural History Society. Professor William James, of Harvard, was in the chair in the absence of the president, and received the reports of two committees: one on Mediumistic Phenomena, and the other on Phantasms and Presentiments...
...upper stories will be devoted to cryptogamic researches. The completion of the interior and the arrangement of the specimens will probably take ten months, so that the rooms will not be open till next year. The proposed connection between the two museums will probably be made into laboratories for research in natural history inasmuch as there is great need for such accommodations at present...
...novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although the and ??? theories are too chimerical to be a ken seriously. It is not probable ??? believes in them himself. The book is well written, and is at times interesting; but every few ??? the philosophical cloud descends, and the reader gropes about in darkness...