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Baldwin (JAMES MARK an American)

JAMES MARK, an American psychologist, born in Columbia, S. C., Jan. 12, 1861; educated at Princeton College, Leipsic, Berlin, and Tübingen Universities; was, successively, Instructor of German and French at Princeton in 1886-1887; Professor of Philosophy in Lake Forest University in 1887-1889, and in the University of Toronto in 1889- 1893; Professor of Psychology at Prince- BALEARIC CRANE ton University, 1893-1903; Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Johns Hopkins University 1903-1909; Professor at the National University of Mexico, 1909. He was Vice-President of the International Congress of Psychology at London in 1892; Honorary President of the International Congress of Criminal Anthropology at Geneva in 1896; President of the American Psychological Association in 1897-1898; Judge of Award at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893; was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Denmark, in 1897, for the best work in ethics; was elected a member of the Institut International de Sociologie, in 1898, and President of International Congress of Psychology at Geneva in 1909; and was a member of many other domestic and foreign scientific societies.

He has lectured at Oxford and at French universities. He is the author of "Handbook of Psychology" (2 vols., 1889-1891); a translation of Ribot's "German Psychology of To-day" (1886); "Elements Things" (1906-1911) "Individual and of Psychology" (1893); " Thoughts and ); Society" (1910); etc. He was also editorand Psychology," and a contributor of in-chief of the "Dictionary of Philosophy articles on psychology to "Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia" (1892-1895). He received the degree of D. Sc. from Oxford University in 1900.