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PROF. JAMES DREVER has recently retired from the chair of psychology in the University of Edinburgh, which he has held since its foundation in 1931. In 1918 he was elected to the Coombe lectureship in psychology at Edinburgh, and in 1924 he became University reader. When lecturer he had eighty students, and an assistant to help him. Shortly before the present War, the number of his students had increased to nearly six hundred, and his staff comprised a reader, two lecturers and four instructors. Prof. Drever graduated in arts in Edinburgh in 1893 and spent two years in studying medicine. Owing, however, to various difficulties he was then compelled to become a schoolmaster. But in 1907 he became assistant to the professor of education at Edinburgh, where he founded the Educational Laboratory, taking a keen interest in problems relating to human instinct, in the treatment of delinquent and difficult children, and in the institution of the degree of bachelor of education and of postgraduate psychological research for students of education. These early efforts led to his later work on the psychological treatment of the psycho-neuroses, on developing performance tests of intelligence, on colour-blindness, and on instituting university teaching in medical and industrial psychology. His son has been appointed by the "University to succeed him in his professorship.
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Prof. James Drever. Nature 154, 358–359 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154358b0
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