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Another example may be added. The gentleman 

 in question said he could tell the name of my watch, or 

 number of a bank-note, or anything else which / knew 

 myself; provided I imagined myself writing it in the air, 

 as it were. Standing before a wall, and holding my 

 hand, he wrote in large letters with his finger, as I myself 

 thought of it, the name TUPMAN, on the wall. He 

 could not have guessed it, as the watch was made in the 

 early part of last century by a watchmaker of that name 

 living in Great Russell Street, and long since dead ; and 

 no watchmaker of that name exists in London.^ 



On telling the revealer that I once transmitted a 

 wish upon a revealer in a hypnotic or somnabulistic con- 

 dition, with the aid of a copper wire some two yards 

 long, one end being bound round the hand of the 

 revealer, the other being in my own, he assured me that 

 he had done the same thing, but with a fine wire used for 

 electrical purposes, about twenty feet in length, between 

 himself and the transmitter ; and he named Mr. Carlisle, 

 the manager of the Irish Times, as the transmitter, and 

 a person with whom he could instantly and clearly reveal 

 anything. 



There were, therefore, three distinctly different means 

 of communication from the transmitter to the revealer. 



(i) By contact, by holding hands. 



(2) Without contact, after previous contact of hands. 



(3) With the connection by wire between them. 



It is difficult to suppose that the body {i.e.^ a material 

 communication) is the instrument ; since experiments (2) 

 and (3) show that the body is unnecessary. 



It would seem, therefore, that the body is, as it were, 

 a necessary " outer case " as long as we are alive in this 



1 An account of this and other experiments is given in Borderland^ 

 No. iii., p. 260, 1894. 



