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THE death of Prof. Beatrice Edgell, professor emeritus in the University of London, takes from us one of the significant figures in the development of British psychology. Born in 1871, she was of the same generation as MeDougall and C. S. Myers, with whom she collaborated in the pioneer work of the British Psychological Society and with whom she helped to establish the traditions on which the study of psychology is still based in British universities. Trained first in philosophy at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, she turned to experimental psychology and studied at Würzburg, where the use of experimental method was being developed in the study of the processes of thought and judgment. Throughout her life she combined her interests in philosophy and in experimental psychology, though with a special leaning to the latter, and from 1897 until 1933 she was head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Bedford College in the University of London.
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Prof. Beatrice Edgell. Nature 162, 363 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162363a0
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