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dry empty wine-bottles over the spring on which I asked Mr. 
Gataker to stand, the rod continued to revolve, showing that 
insulation, in his case, had not the slightest influence. 
Remarks.—From the above experiments it would seem that it 
is no ordinary electric or magnetic force which causes the 
phenomena observable in Mr. Gataker. 
May it be some form of animal magnetism which fails to shew 
itself experimentally? I hope that other observers, interested in 
this subject, may be induced to make careful experiments with 
other dowsers, and report their experience. 
I sent copies of this paper to Mr. Vaughan Jenkins and 
Professor Barrett, who is one of the Vice-Presidents of the 
Psychical Research Society, and Professor of Experimental 
Physics in the Royal College of Science for Ireland. 
Mr. Vaughan Jenkins wrote to me on July 5th, 1898. “Iam 
extremely obliged to you for your courtesy in sending me an 
account of your interesting test experiments with Mr. Gataker. 
They will form a valuable contribution to the investigation of 
the, at present, occult influence, that induces the ‘Rod’s’ 
causation. It would have been especially gratifying to me if the 
results of your test experiments had confirmed those of Mr. 
MacKnight, but at present they appear totally irreconcilable, and 
thus adding one more to the many anomolies, the phenomenal 
action the ‘Rod’ presents. I may mention that the late Rector 
of Silk Willoughby (he died suddenly, zetat 78, in May, 1876,) was 
an accomplished amateur electrician and scientist generally, and, 
therefore, specially qualified to scientifically investigate the 
subject, and he felt absolutely convinced that the power, 
whatever it was, did follow the known laws of electricity, 
The magnetized needle, alluded to in paragraph 3, page 75 of the 
_ pamphlet, in addition to its clustering other needles around 
itself, would float on water and polarize, while an ordinary needle 
_ would immediately sink. The only possible solution of this 
difficult and conflicting problem that occurs to me is this :—That 
