Myers, Charles Samuel, 1873-1946 (psychologist)
Biography
Charles Samuel Myers (1873-1946), psychologist, was born in London on 13 March 1873. He attended the City of London School, and entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1891, becoming a Fellow in 1919. In 1898 he joined the Cambridge anthropological expedition to the Torres Straits, where he carried out experimental studies on the sensory reactions of the natives and studied their music. He returned to Cambridge in 1902, and was demonstrator in experimental psychology, 1904-1907, and university lecturer and reader, 1907-1930. He was also Professor of Experimental Psychology at King's College, London, 1906-1909. Myers moved to London in 1922, becoming principal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, which he had founded with H.J. Welch in 1921, and devoted himself to its development. He died at Winsford Glebe, Somerset, on 12 October 1946.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Invitation to C. S. Myers to attend the opening of the New School of Physiology on 9 June 1914
Letter from Myers to Hartridge from Somerset about the date of a Board meeting, 19200613
Writing from Birchwood, Porlock, Somerset, Myers explains that he would rather not make the journey to Cambridge for a Board meeting before the start of the Michaelmas term. He requests that the meeting be deferred till October, by which time the University will have decided whether it is possible for him to come into residence.
'Memorandum from the Board of Psychological Studies to the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge'
The Board begs leave to submit a report requesting the establishment of several new posts to meet the demand for study in Psychology. Number of students currently attending courses in the last year (the document is undated) amounted to between 70 and 80, whereas there is only accommodation for about 50 with present facilities.
Notice of a course of lectures to be given by Dr Myers in General and Experimental Psychology during Michaelmas term, 1914, 19140530
These lectures were intended for medical students and candidates for Part I of the Diploma in Psychological Medicine.
Report by the Director, 1914
The report announces that planned courses of lectures have had to be cancelled and that it has been impossible to start a course in Psychology that year. However, a Mr Fox, Lecturer at the Training College for Schoolmasters, has been able to conduct a class in Educational Psychology.
Speech about 'The New Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge', tracing the history of psychological research in Cambridge
'The Minute Book of the Board of Psychological Studies', 19201025 - 19261018
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