The proceedings of the First Colloquium on Personality Investigation held in New York last December under the auspices of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on Relations with the Social Sciences have been published. Copies of these proceedings can be secured from the Committee's Secretary, Harry S. Sullivan, Towson, Maryland. Paper bound copies are sixty cents each; cloth bound copies are one dollar.
Dr Frances I. Gaw, formerly Assistant Supervisor in the Department of Psychology and Educational Research of the Los Angeles City Schools and Extension Instructor in Psychology in the University of California took charge of the Child Study Laboratory of the Seattle Public Schools on September 1.
In connection with his article in a recent number of The Psychological Clinic Joseph Miller was erroneously reported to be Counsellor in the Wilkesbarre High School. He is Director of Educational and Vocational Guidance in the thirty grade schools and two high schools of that city.
A study made last year in Washington, D.C., by the United States Public Health Service has very considerable significance for all who are concerned with the education of children. Complete eye examinations with suspended accommodation were made on 1,860 unselected white children in the AVashington schools ranging in age from six to sixteen years. It was discovered that lees than 4 per cent of the children were entirely free from refractive defects, and that only a little more than a third of these could have been detected by the ordinary tests of visual acuity. Experts said that 34 per cent of these children needed glasses, while glasses for reading and studying were recommended for 10 per cent more. It is particularly significant that hyperopia or far sightedness was twelve times as common as nearsightedness. The latter is easily discovered by simple tests, but not the former. Furthermore the adaptability in the young is so great that the results of most school tests are not valid.