Collins, Colour-Blindness - 1925 OPHTHAMOLOGY FARBENBLINDHEIT AUGENHEILKUNDE

Collins, Mary.
Colour-Blindness. With a comparison of different methods of testing
colour-blindness. With an introduction by James Drever. London, K. Paul,
Trench, Trubner & Co. 1925. 8°. XXXI, 237, 9 S. mit 1 Farbtafel u.
10 Figuren im Text. OLn. mit goldgepr. Rückentitel. (International
Library of psychology).

Wellcome Coll. WW100 1925C71c. – Sehr
seltene erste Ausgabe. – „That theories are useful servants but bad
masters is borne out by a study of this book. It embodies “the results
of research on red-green colourblind subjects,” and “the tests were
carried out unbiased by any preconceived theory and no rigid
classification was attempted during the experiments themselves.” A mass
of observations on ten excellent subjects, eight being students
attending the graduating course in experimental psychology, and two
science students, has been accumulated. All will admit that such
material is of great value, but that alone it is unlikely to afford an
explanation of the complex problem under investigation. Its ultimate
value will depend upon the deductions drawn from it, and these must
necessarily involve theoretical considerations which may support or be
adverse to previous theories. In this respect it is essential that the
investigator should be fully cognisant of the facts which have been
elicited by previous observers, whether they support any such theory or
not“ (Nature 116, 492-493, 1925). – Mary Collins (1895-1989), „an expert
in colour vision, was a Lecturer in Psychology at Edinburgh University.
– „Mary Collins graduated M.A. from Edinburgh University in 1917, going
on to obtain a B.Ed. (1919) and a Ph.D. (1923). Upon completing her
doctoral work, she was appointed as a Lecturer in Psychology. Besides
publishing a monograph Colour-Blindness: With a Comparison of Different
Methods of Testing Colour-Blindness, she collaborated on a number of
publications with Sir James Drever (1873-1950), Head of Department, and,
from 1931, Edinburgh University’s first Professor of Psychology. These
included Experimental Psychology (1926), A First Laboratory Guide in
Psychology (1926), Performance Tests of Intelligence (1928), and
Psychology and Practical Life (1936). She would later write an
appreciate obituary of Drever for the British Psychological Journal
(1951). She subsequently worked closely with Boris Semeonoff
(1910-1998). Collins was promoted to Senior Lecturer by 1950 and Reader
in Psychology by 1956. She retired before 1962“ (University of
Edinburgh). – Gelenke unauffällig restauriert, gutes sauberes Exemplar.