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clue as to the nature of the experiment he is required to conduct. 

 When tlie medium's part is well performed, other conditions being 

 also favourable, striking notes of music thought of, writing down 

 the number of a bank-note, and other tests of like character can be 

 unerringly carried out witb equal speed and precision. 



It°will not be supposed that by the term Thought-Reading, 

 the suitability of which may quite reasonably be questioned, is 

 meant a power of penetrating another's thoughts. It implies on 

 the part of the reader nothing more than a peculiar degree of 

 sensitiveness to external impressions together with the ability 

 of correctly interpreting them, and on the part of the one whose 

 mind is to be revealed, the power of concentrating thoughts and 

 of projecting such impressions. 



At the conclusion of the paper, Mr. Ames successfully 

 performed a number of experiments on several of the audience. 



TUESDAY, XOYEMBEE 3rd. 

 There was a Lecture on the " Musical Dramas of Eichard 

 Wagner," by Carl Ambruster, Esq. 



°The Lecture was illustrated by a series of extracts from 

 "Rienzi," "The Flying Dutchman," and " Tanuhauser," which 

 was performed by ?»Iiss Pauline Cramer, of the Eoyal Opera, 

 Munich, and of the Bayreuth Festivals, and by the Lecturer. 



TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1st. 



A Lecture on "The Fuel of the Sun" was delivered by 

 W. Mattieu Williams, Esq., F.E.A.S. 



About fifteen years ago the Lecturer published a work on 

 this subject, aud he is of opinion that discoveries smce made 

 have c^one to confirm the views then advanced. He beheves that 

 the matter of our atmosphere is expanded throughout space, 

 and accumulated around every orb proportionately to its gravitation. 

 The sun does not rotate precisely like a planet ; for th. equator travels 

 more rapidly than the regions nearer the poles, and this shows that 



