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Professor and Mrs. Sidgwick only attended a portion of the 

 series, and that, unfortunately, several of the most astounding 

 and conclusive of the phenomena occurred in their absence. 



This is important, because Mrs. Sidgwick has published 

 an account of those she attended (in the Proceedings of the 

 Society for Psychical Research, vol. iv.), and has laid great 

 stress upon the inconclusive nature of the tests applied, though 

 she admits that it was exceedingly difficult, " but not perhaps 

 impossible," to impute the results to imposture. Under these 

 circumstances, it seems to me, that if these records of the 

 whole series of seances by Mr. Myers are still in existence and 

 can be obtained, it is the duty of the Society, in justice to the 

 mediums (one of whom is still living), and in the interests of 

 science, to make the entire series public. Under the light of 

 our more advanced knowledge to-day, such a record by so 

 careful and so critical an observer, of so long-continued an 

 inquiry, must contain a mine of invaluable facts. 



My Experiences in America. 



During a lecturing tour in the United States in 1886-87, I 

 staid some time in three of the centres of American spiritual- 

 ism — Boston, Washington, and San Francisco, and made the 

 acquaintance of many American spiritualists and inquirers, 

 with whom I attended many remarkable seances. At Boston 

 I met the Rev. Minot J. Savage, whose latest work, "Can 

 Telepathy Explain ? ' contains such a collection of personal 

 experiences as have fallen to the lot of few inquirers; Mr. 

 F. J. Garrison, a son of the great abolitionist ; Mr. E. A. 

 Brackett, a sculptor, and author of a remarkable book on 

 " Materialized Apparitions" ; Dr. Nichols, author of " Whence, 

 Where, and Whither"; Professor James, of Harvard, and 

 several others. 



I attended several seances at the house of Mrs. Ross, a 

 very good medium for materializations, in the company of 

 one or more of my friends. I will state what occurred on one 

 of these occasions. The seance took place in a front down- 

 stairs room of a small private house, opening by sliding doors 



