The Royal Society Catalogue and Psychology

Abstract

IN the original classification of the sciences for the purposes of the projected Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Literature, Psychology was given an independent place. Recognising this, the International Psychological Congress at Munich, in 1896, appointed an English committee to do what they could to further the scheme in the name of the Congress. Following this, Dr. G. F. Stout, editor of Mind, then at Aberdeen, now at Oxford, was asked by Prof. Michael Foster to prepare a schedule for psychology. Dr. Stout sought the collaboration of the present writer, who represented the Psychological Review and its annual catalogue the Psychological Index. In the meantime, at the suggestion of Prof. Foster to the present writer, the question had come up in America as to the advisability of suspending our Index (which is now common to the Zeitsch. f. Psychologies Berlin, and the Année Psychologique, Paris), with the preliminary understanding that if the Royal Society Catalogue issued an adequate list in psychology, it would be advisable to suspend the publication of the Index and support the Catalogue. Dr. Stout submitted the schedule he had prepared.