Sir Oliver Lodge, who contributes one of the most valuable 

 papers in this symposium, was born at PenkhuU, Staffordshire, 

 England, in 185 1. For fifty years he has been a student and in- 

 vestigator of cosmic phenomena, beginning his active teaching 

 career as Professor of Physics at University College, Liverpool, 

 England, in 1881, and remaining there nine years. He has 

 served as president of the Mathematical and Phj'sical section of 

 the British Association, president of the Physical Society of Lon- 

 don, president of the Society for Psychical Research, and presi- 

 dent of the British Association. In 1919 he was awarded the 

 Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts as the pioneer in 

 wireless telegraphy. His publications number upwards of 

 thirty, and include treatises on mechanics, school reform, elec- 

 trons, man and his universe, the World War, evolution and 

 human progress. Perhaps he is more widely and popularly 

 known, however, as one of the world's leading advocates of per- 

 sonal survival of death. His books on this theme: Raymond, or 

 Life and Death; Science and Immortality ; and Why I Believe 

 in Personal Immortality, have established his reputation as a 

 careful, able and thoroughly scientific investigator into psychic 

 phenomena. His paper entitled The Scientific Argument for 

 Personal Survival, which follows, is a cautious yet candid ex- 

 position of the attitude of modern research toward personal sur- 

 vival of death. 



