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Solomons and I reported on the work done that year on the tendency to motor automatism in normal subjects. The only subjects we had were ourselves. This year it has been my aim to continue this work by using a large number of subjects. I have attempted to examine the phenomena of normal autom-atism by a study of normal individuals, both in regard to the variations in this capacity found in a large number of subjects, and also in regard to the types of character that accompany a greater or less tendency to automatic action. Incidental to this main question have arisen the further questions of comparison between male and female subjects, and the variations of the female subjects in fatigue. For these experiments the most convenient instrument I found to be a planchette suggested by Mr. Delabarre. We suspended from a high ceiling a board just large enough to support the forearm, the hand hanging over and holding a pencil. This planchette responded to very slight movements, could be readily adjusted, and allowed the operator to move it, and guide the subject without his knowledge. By lightly resting my hand on the board after starting a movement I could deceive the subject, who sat with closed eyes, as to whether he or I was making the movement, and I could judge also how readily he yielded to a newly suggested movement, or if he resisted it strongly. My method was as follows : My subject, after adjusting his arm and getting perfectly comfortable, would close his eyes and I would then direct him to keep his mind off the experiment and off his arm. Sometimes I would talk to him, sometimes get

Cultivated motor automatism; a study of character in its relation to attention.