Background
Donald, Arthur Mac was born on July 4, 1856 in Caledonia, New York, United States. Son of Angus and Virginia (Dibble) M.
Donald, Arthur Mac was born on July 4, 1856 in Caledonia, New York, United States. Son of Angus and Virginia (Dibble) M.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Rochester, 1879, Master of Arts, 1883. Studied law, 1879; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1880. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1883.
Post-graduate courses in philosophy, metaphysics, et cetera, Harvard, 1883-1885.
Appointed fellow in psychology, Johns Hopkins, but declined appointment in order to pursue studies, 1885-1889, at Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Zürich and Vienna, in medicine (full course), psycho-physics, and special courses in insanity, hypnotism and criminology.
Docent (a distinct advance beyond the doctorate) in criminology, Clark University, 1889-1891. With United States bureau of Education, 1892-1904, as specialist in education as related to the abnormal and weakling classes. United States delegate to 3 International Psychological and Criminol. congresses.
Honorary president 3d International Congress of Criminal Anthropology of Europe.
Studied American and European prisons, insane and inebriate asylums, slums, et cetera, for United States bureau of Education Author: Abnormal Manitoba, 1893. Criminology, 1894; Education and Patho-Social Studies, 1896.
Le Criminel-Type, 1895. Emile Zola, 1899; Experimental Study of Children, 1899.
Hearing on the Bill to Establish a Laboratory for the Study of the Criminal Pauper and Defective Classes, 1902.
Plan for the Study of Manitoba, et cetera, 1902. Statistics of Crime, Suicide and Insanity, 1903. Manitoba and Abnormal Manitoba, 1905.
Juvenile Crime and Reformation, 1908.
Senate Documents; Mentality of Nations and Social Pathology, 1912, and contributions to American and European publications on criminology, human abnormalities, hypnotism, et cetera Also articles on criminology in Encyclopedia Americana and Nelson’s Encyclopedia, and special articles: A Study of the United States Senate, Scientific Political Training of President Coolidge, Old Age in Manitoba, Death in Manitoba, Study of Manitoba After Death, Education and Psychoanalysis, Education and Eugenics, Legislative Anthropology, et cetera
Home: Washington, Distric.
Married Margaret J. Porterfield, September 29, 1904.