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THOSE interested in psychology will be sorry to hear of the retirement under the age limit of Dr. William Brown from the Wilde readership in mental philosophy at Oxford. Dr. Brown retired from the directorship of the Oxford University Institute of Experimental Psychology last year. It was through Dr. Brown that the laboratory of experimental psychology was re-established—it had been started by Prof. W. MacDougall but disrupted by the First World War. The Wilde readership was first held by Prof. G. F. Stout who, after five years, moved to St. Andrews; and then by Prof. MacDougall, who retained it for seventeen years until he accepted the chair of psychology at Harvard. William Brown was a worthy follower in 1921 of these great psychologists. He had had considerable experience in clinical nervous and mental diseases during the War as medical officer in charge of Craiglockhart War Hospital for neurasthenic officers and as neurologist to the Fourth Army in the British Expeditionary Force in France.
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Institute of Experimental Psychology, Oxford: Dr. William Brown. Nature 158, 938 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158938b0
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