572 The Outline of Science 



same room will be found in the early volumes of the Proceedings 

 of the S.P.R., and a few of the diagrams looked at by the "agent" 

 and simultaneously drawn by the blindfolded and screened "per- 

 cipient" in these experiments can be reproduced here; these being 

 selected as successful instances. But from the point of view of 

 evidence the whole series must be studied, and chance eliminated. 

 Perhaps the most interesting of recent experiments on this 

 subject are those conducted by Professor Gilbert Murray in his 

 own family, where the thing transferred was not a diagram or 

 anything objective or visible at all, but an event or scene silently 

 thought of by one of those present. For instance, these success- 

 ful items from the Proceedings of the S.P.R., vol. xxix: 



Agent silently thinks of: 



"Alister and [Malcolm] MacDonald running along the platform at Liver- 

 pool Street, and trying to catch the train just going out"; 



while, after a pause, Percipient says aloud: 



"Something to do with a railway station. I should say it was rather a 

 crowd at a big railway station, and two little boys running along in the crowd. 

 I should guess Basil." 



As another instance may be quoted this one. 

 Subject thought of by Agent: 



'Belgian Baron getting out of train at Savanarilla with us, and walking 

 across the sandy track and seeing the new train come in." 



Statement by Percipient: 



"Man getting out of a train and looking for something. I don't know if he's 

 looking for another train to come. I think it is a sort of dry hot sort of place. 

 I get him with a faint impression of waxed moustache a sort of foreign person 

 but I can't get more." 



