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*' Beverley."* These Observations were, ac- 

 cording to our author's statement in his Address 

 read at the first meeting of our Society, copied 

 very closely by one of the members of the Geo- 

 logical Society, without the slightest acknow- 

 ledgment. In 1804, Dr. Alderson published his 

 " Essay on the RhusToxicodendron, with cases 

 " of its effects in paralytic affections/' which 

 excited considerable attention in the medical 

 world. His " Essay on Apparitions" was ori- 

 ginally read, in 1805, at one of the meetings of 

 the Society, which I have before mentioned, 

 for the purposes of literary information. It was 

 first published, unknown to the author, in the 

 Edinburgh Medical and Chirurgical Journal, in 

 1810,f and was reprinted by him, separately, in 

 1811. There can be little doubt, particularly 

 from the remarks in Drake's Shakspeare and 

 his Times, J that this production furnished the 

 ground- work, though unacknowledged, of Fer- 

 riar's " Essay towards a theory of Apparitions," 

 and also of Dr. Hibbert's " Philosophy of Ap- 

 " paritions." Dr. Alderson's last publication 

 was " An Address, read to the Members of 

 " the Hull Mechanics' Institute," delivered by 



* Vol. 3, p. 285. 



f See the Author's " Introduction" to a new Edition of this Essay, 

 p. viii. 



f Vol.2, p. 405. 



