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head. Mr. A afterwards related that : "On Saturday night, 22nd of 

 March, 1884, I had a distinct impression that Mr. B was in my room. 

 I distinctly saw him whilst widely awake. He came towards me and 

 touched my head." The committee say they have received a report of 

 another successful experiment of a similar kind. 



The same report gives an authenticated case of an apparition which 

 was seen by two persons at once. 1 Mr. James Weld, living near 

 Southampton, in 1842, sent his youngest son Philip, to the Catholic 

 college of St. Edmunds, near Ware, in Hertfordshire. April 16th, 

 1845, he was rowing on the river Ware, with one of the masters and 

 some companions, and accidentally fell overboard and was drowned. At 

 the same hour, as it afterward appeared, Mr. Weld and his daughter Kath- 

 erine were walking out, and they both suddenly saw a distinct apparition 

 of Philip, standing on the path on the opposite side of the turnpike road, 

 between two other figures, one of which represented a youth dressed in 

 a black robe. They started to walk towards the figures. Mr. Weld 

 says, ''Philip was looking with a smiling, happy expression of counte- 

 nance, at the young man in a black robe who was shorter than himself. 

 Suddenly they all seemed to me to have vanished ; I saw nothing but a 

 countryman whom I had before seen through the three figures, which 

 gave me the impression that they were spirits. " The figure in the black 

 robe was afterwards identified as the effigy of St. Stanislaus Kostka, a 

 Jesuit saint, to whom Philip was piously devoted, who is also reputed 

 to be the especial advocate of drowned men. He was probably in the 

 mind of the drowning youth at the time of his death. No further ac- 

 count is given of the third figure. The committee's theor}^ of this case, 

 is that of telepathic transfer of Philip's mental impressions to two per- 

 cipients at once, both in rapport with the agent. 



It was suggested above, that the human family may have lost something 

 of the power of mind-reading. There appears certainly to be a faculty of 

 mind-reading to a certain extent, amongst the lower animals. The sub- 

 ject is obscure and has not received sufficient investigation, but it appears 

 tolerably certain that many animals have a silent method of transferring 

 their ideas to each other. An anecdote is told of a certain horse and a 

 dog who had formed a warm friendship for each other. They lived on 

 a farm, and every morning the master of the animals drove the horse 

 with a small market wagon into a neighboring town. The dog however, 

 was never allowed to go. On the road between this farm and the town 

 there lived another dog, who was of an exceedingly ugly and vicious 

 disposition, and who never lost an opportunity to assail and annoy the 

 horse every morning as he passed by. One day this annoyance was un- 

 usually irritating, and after the return of the horse, he and his dog 



1 See page 830. Chapter 74 was in type before I saw this account. 



