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explained the important discovery (due mainly to the society’s 
experiments, and to those of Professor Barrett in the first place) 
that mental pictures, thoughts, and sensations can in some cases 
be transferred from one person to another without contact, and 
without the agency of any of the recognized organs of sense. 
Some diagrams were here exhibited, representing simple outline 
drawings, which had been drawn by one person and reproduced 
by another person who had not seen them, but into whose mind 
their image had apparently been projected by a strong concentra- 
tion of thought. It was next shown that this theory of thought 
transference could be extended so as to explain many cases ot 
apparitions at death, &c., of which some examples were given. 
The lecturer insisted on the importance of a very large collection, 
and a very careful sifting, of first hand narratives of apparitions, 
govern such occurrences. The risks of error or exaggeration in 
these accounts were pointed out, and a warning was given against 
premature theorizing. The audience were requested to send to 
the secretary of the Society for Psychical Research, 14 Dean’s- 
yard, Westminster, any well-attested narratives of apparitions, 
&c., which they could collect, and especially the records of any 
experiments in thought-transference, &c. The lecturer concluded 
by stating that, although the evidence hitherto collected could 
not be said to amount to a proof of the survival of the soul after 
the death of the body, yet, so far as it went, it pointed in that 
direction, The evidence of the materialist theory was simply 
negative. That theory might be likened to a pyramid set on its 
apex: it was in a state of unstable equilibrium, and the smallest 
amount of positive evidence against it was sufficient to overturn 
it as a scientific theory. He drew a picture of the probable effect 
on human life and character if that great hope were to be raised 
into scientific certainty, and to become a pervading and dominant 
belief. Towards such great issues psychical research seemed to 
be tending, though the work must be minute and laborious, and 
the result must be slowly won.—£xglish Mechanic. 
A Doc ASHAMED OF THEFT.—A Baltimore gentleman owns a 
skye terrier which recently proved that it could feel ashamed of a 
dishonest act. At the time in question the gentleman was seated 
at his table. The little Skye saw a cutlet near the edge of the 
board, and yielded to the temptation to steal the meat. The cut- 
let was slyly seized and taken under the sofa. The gentleman 
pretended not to see the act of theft. But the conscience of the 
little terrier soon got the better of its hunger. It brought the 
cutlet back, laid it the feet of its master, hung its head in s 
and slunk away.—Philadelphia Call. 
We never personally knew “old Rove” to steal, but we were 
informed that he did once steal a piece of corned beef from a 
