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his observatory at Tulse Hill, near London, and there he 

 met Wallace and discussed the whole matter. It may not 

 be generally known that so careful and accurate an 

 observer as Sir W. Huggins wa« convinced of the genuine- 

 ness of the phenomena he had witnessed with Lord Dun- 

 raven and others through the medium D. D. Home. He 

 informed Prof. Barrett of this himself. 



To Prof. Barrett 

 Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon. June 27, 1878. 



My dear Barrett, — The receipt of a British Association 

 circular reminds me of your kind invitation to stay with 

 you or your friend at Dublin, and as you may be wishing 

 soon to make your arrangements I write at once to let you 

 know that, much to my regret, I shall not be able to come 

 to Dublin this year. Since I met you at Mr. Huggins's I 

 have done nothing myself in Spiritual investigations, 

 but have been exceedingly interested in the knot-tying 

 experiment of Prof. ZoUner and the weight-varying ex- 

 periments of the Spiritualists' Association. I do not see 

 what flaw can be found in either of them. . . . — Yours 

 very faithfully, Alfred R. Wallace. 



In the discussion on Prof. Barrett's paper at the Glas- 

 gow Meeting of the British Association, which took place 

 in the London Times and other newspapers, instances of 

 apparent thought-transference were given by many corre- 

 spondents. Each of these cases Prof. Barrett investigated 

 personally, and one of them led to a remarkable series of 

 experiments which he conducted at Buxton, with the result 

 that no doubt was left on his mind of the fact of the trans- 

 ference of ideas from one mind to another independent 

 of the ordinary channels of sense. He asked Prof, and 

 Mrs. H. Sidgwick to come to Buxton and repeat his ex- 

 periments with the subjects there — daughters of a local 

 clergyman. They did so, and though they had less success 



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