Abstract

Largely correspondence presenting a picture of the professional status and interests of psychologist Edward Titchener, containing much information on fellow psychologists and psychology departments at other universities, as well as the struggle of psychology to establish itself as an academic discipline. There is also correspondence concerning the publication of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY and a bound typescript of Titchener's A BEGINNER'S PSYCHOLOGY (1915).

Scope and content Includes letter from Robert Yerkes to Lauriston Sharp, December 18, 1942, with data sheet concerning the gorilla and his brain; typescript copy of an excerpt from the ITHACA JOURNAL, May 21, 1897, regarding the acquisition of the gorilla by Cornell University; two photographs of gorilla by Elmer Chickering; and an article, "The Ape in Stateroom 10" from NATURAL HISTORY, 1976, by John Whittaker and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, concerning Burt Green Wilder's interest in gorilla neurological...