supervision of helpful critic teachers. Special attention will be given to work with small groups of patients on the wards. Four days a week, two weeks (8).

(6) One afternoon per week visits for inspection and observation of methods and conditions will be made to the different playgrounds and public institutions. These visits will be under the personal direction of some member of the staff of lecturers. Friday afternoons.

A lecture course is specially arranged for the attendants on the general subject of the Educational Value of Occupation-both Work and Play These lectures will be given twice a week at 9 a. m. Among the lecturers for the coming season will be Dr. William Healy, Prof. Graham Taylor, Mrs. Charles Henrotin, Dr. Addison Bybee, Dr. Clara Dunn and Miss Julia C. Lathrop.

Students will be free to attend the course of lectures conducted by Prof. Graham Taylor. They will also be welcome to participate in the visits to institutions in Chicago and vicinity.

The fee for each student is $15.00, of which $10.00 is for instruction and $5.00 for material.

For women students who desire to avail themselves of the arrangement for room and board at the Eleanor Club, special rates have been obtained at from $3.50 to $4.50 per week, depending upon the number of persons in a room. Those desiring to take advantage of this offer should write to Secretary of the School of Civics, No. 439, 158 Adams Street. All others who intend to register should report as soon as practicable if any assistance is desired in finding boarding places.

Correspondence and applications for registration should be addressed to the Secretary of the School of Civics and Philanthropy, Suite 439, 158 Adams Street, Chicago, Ill.

THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY.-The first number of this new monthly is a well-printed pamphlet of 60 pages: containing an editorial announcement, three original papers, four communications and discussions, seven abstracts and reviews, and a few notes and acknowledgments of publications received. The original papers are by Edward L. Thorndike on The Contribution of Psychology to Education, by W. H. Winch on Some Measurements of Mental Fatigue in Adolescent Pupils in Evening Schools, and by Carl E. Seashore on The Class Experiment.

The managing editor is J. Carleton Bell, of the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, who may be addressed at 1032 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. If the standard which has been set by this first number be maintained there is no doubt of the publication having a successful career.

AMERICAN MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.-The sixtysixth annual meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Association will be held in Washington, D. C., at the New Willard, May 3-6, 1910.

The preliminary program which has been issued gives promise of an interesting meeting. As the session this year is held in conjunction with the special societies forming the Congress of American Physician and Surgeons, members of the Association will have the additional advantage of participating in the general sessions of the Congress at which some of the papers and discussions will be of special interest.

ERRATUM. In the JOURNAL for January, 1910, page 407, line 21, the word "distant" should read "intimate."

Obituary.

DR. WALTER ROBARTS GILLETTE.

Dr. Walter Robarts Gillette, a member of the consulting board of physicians of the Manhattan State Hospital, died on November 7, 1908, in his sixty-ninth year.

Dr. Gillette was born on January 16, 1840, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Colgate University in 1861, from which he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he was graduated in 1863.

He was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, of the Medical Society of the City of New York, of the American Medico-Psychological Association since 1899; was acting assistant surgeon during the Civil War, and for 13 years following surgeon to the New York Post Office; at one time he was attending physician, and later consulting physician, to Bellevue and St. Francis Hospitals, and for 30 years an official of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, 12 years of which time he was vice-president.

Early in the seventies Dr. Gillette became connected with the New York City Asylum for the Insane as consultant, being a life-long friend of the late Dr. A. E. Macdonald; his sound knowledge and widespread experience were gladly availed of. Although a busy man of affairs, he never hesitated to sacrifice self to respond quickly to the call of the hospital.

When the New York City Asylum for the Insane became the Manhattan State Hospital in 1896, he was chosen one of the board of consulting physicians and surgeons, to which his varied experience made a valuable addition, and continued his interest unabated in the welfare of the institution and the patients up to a recent period. His clinical knowledge and humane feelings eminently fitted him for the position of counsellor and consultant to this great hospital.

Personally, he was a delightful man, and was esteemed and beloved by all for his sterling worth and kind disposition, and the

eulogies of his intimate friends and colleagues testify in the strongest manner to the hold he had on their affections. Dr. Gillette was a man of highly cultivated intellect, conservative in his modes of thought, and was always ready to help medical and other charities; a courteous and kindly gentleman, much beloved and greatly esteemed by all who knew him.

WILLIAM MABON.

DR. OLIVER M. DEWING.

Dr. Oliver M. Dewing, superintendent of the Long Island, N. Y. State Hospital, died March 15, 1910, of pneumonia after an illness of a week. A notice of Dr. Dewing's life and work will appear in a subsequent number of the JOURNAL.

At a stated meeting of the medical staff of the Long Island State Hospital, held March 22, 1910, the following resolutions were adopted:

WHEREAS, It has pleased an All-wise Providence to take from our midst our beloved superintendent, Dr. Oliver Morse Dewing, who passed away after a week's illness of lobar pneumonia, on March 15, 1910,

Resolved, That the medical profession has lost a valued member, the state hospitals an able and efficient superintendent, the members of the staff a valued friend and colleague, and the patients under his supervision a sympathetic friend, whose genial good nature added much to their happiness and the betterment of their condition.

Resolved, That we desire to express to the family our sincere sympathy in this hour of sad bereavement, and

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family, also for publication in the medical journals, and that it be filed with the records of this hospital.

DR. H. A. TOBEY.

Dr. Henry Archibald Tobey was born April 6, 1852, on a farm in Union County, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools, and at the Ohio Wesleyan University. He read medicine with Dr. Watt, of Kenton, Ohio. Later he entered the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, from which he graduated with honors in 1875. He entered into partnership with Dr. Henry Conklin, of Sidney, Ohio, and practiced his profession as a general practitioner until 1877, when he accepted the appointment as assistant physi cian in the Columbus Asylum for Insane, then in charge of the illustrious Dr. Richard Gundry. He remained in the service under Dr. Gundry and Dr. Firestone until 1880, when he was elected Superintendent of the Dayton Asylum for Insane, being then but 28 years of age. In 1884 he decided to give up hospital work for private practice, and resigned his position and moved to Lima, Ohio, where he again took up the duties of a general practitioner, and was more than ordinarily successful, but when the new hospital at Toledo, Ohio, was ready for the reception of patients, the State authorities induced him to give up private practice in the interests of the public weal. In the opening of the Toledo State Hospital, his zeal, his enthusiasm, his organizing ability, soon brought this new hospital to the front, and made his reputation international. In 1891 the baleful influence of politics was felt in Ohio, and this great man was swept aside at the dictates of the spoilsman. In 1892 he was re-elected, and remained Superintendent of this great institution until failing health forced his retirement in 1906.

Dr. Tobey was married in 1881 to Minnie Conklin, of Sidney, Ohio. Three children, Helen, Alice, and Louise, survive him. Mrs. Tobey preceded him to the Great Beyond, and it was his worry and anxiety over her illness and death which precipitated the failure of his resistive powers, and from that time his health rapidly failed, until his work became burdensome and necessitated his retirement. He died suddenly at his summer camp in Canada, August 18, 1908.

Dr. Tobey was a most unusual man. He was big in body, mind, and soul. He was able to sort the wheat from the chaff, and reach a logical conclusion without circumlocution. His mind was