investigations.

One especial psychological discipline which was apparently created
for our sake is the psychology of law, the development of which,
in Germany, Volkmar[1] recounts. This science afterward developed,
through the instrumentality of Metzger[2] and Platner,[3] as criminal
psychology. From the medical point of view especially, Choulant's
collection of the latter's, ``Quaestiones,'' is still valuable. Criminal
psychology was developed further by Hoffbauer,[4] Grohmann,[5]


[1] W. Volkmann v. Volkmar: Lehrbuch der Psychologie (2 vols.). Cthen 1875

[2] J. Metzger: ``Gerichtlich-medizinische Abhandhingen.'' Knigsberg 1803

[3] Ernst Platner: Questiones medicinae forensic, tr. German by Hederich

[4] J. C. Hoffbauer Die Psychologie in ibren Hauptanwendungen auf die
Rechtspflege. Halle 1823.

[5] G. A. Grohmann: Ideen zu einer physiognomisehen Anthropologie. Leipzig
1791.

Heinroth,[1] Sehaumann,[2] Mnch,[3] Eckartshausen,[4] and others. In
Kant's time the subject was a bone of contention between faculties,
Kant representing in the quarrel the philosophic, Metzger, Hoffbauer,
and Fries,[5] the medical faculties. Later legal psychology was simply
absorbed by psychiatry, and thereby completely subsumed among the