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two Newcastle mediums, the entire series of which he attended 

 and recorded very carefully in the notebooks he shewed me, 

 he laid great stress upon the extremely rigid precautions that 

 were taken against the possibility of imposture, and con- 

 veyed to me the impression that he himself was quite con- 

 vinced of the genuineness of the whole series. He also told 

 me that 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 tJie 

 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 stances 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 18S6-87, 1 

 stayed 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 s/ances. 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 



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