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_PsycuicaAL REsEARCH.—In the year 1883 was organized in Lon- 
don the Society for Psychical Research, Professor Henry Sedg- 
wick being the first president. The society’s published proceed- 
ings, part v, having appeared in April of this year. Volume 1, 
contains the following papers: : 
Address of the president at the first general meeting. 
First report of the committee on thought-reading, with notes by Professor Bal- 
arrett. 
e. 
Abnormal conditions of the mind. Professor W, F. Barrett. 
Second report of committee on mesmerism. i 
Experiments in thought-transference at Liverpool, By Malcolm Guthrie and 
James Berchall. 
Note on muscle-reading, ak 
On dreaming and allied states. A circular letter. 
_In part v the investigations upon mesmerism and thought trans- 
ference are continued. Professor Barrett also writes on the ex- 
istence of a “magnetic sense,” and Mr. Gurney on hypnotism. 
The most of the number is occupied with inquiries respecting the 
divining rod, 
OKADAIRA SHELL Mounp.—To the courtesy of H. Kato, presi- 
nt, we are indebted for a pamphlet of seven pages and eleven 
; folded plates, bearing the title “ Okadaira Shell Mound” at H ita- 
chi, being an appendix to Memoir, vol. 1, part 1, of the Science 
Department, Tokio Daigaku (University of Tokio). By I. lijima 
and C. Sasaki, students in biology. kio: Tokio cigar 
2543 (1883): Hitachi is about thirty miles from Tokio, an 
upon the banks of the lakes and other water courses of the vicinity 
are shell mounds rich in ancient remains. The readers of the 
graph acknowledge their obligation. .The objects found in the 
daira mound were cooking vessels, hand vessels, bowls, pots, 
cups, and fragments, all of pottery; axes, celts, wrought ‘grr 
_Paystotiocicar Inourrtes.—The committee of the Paris ae 
Pological Society have issued an eight page pamphlet, entitled, 
Projet de Questionnaire d’Anthropologie Physiologique, which, 
i brief, contains the following inquities: —— ee 
, I. Genéral—Name, age, nationality, birthplace, po 
Toer Z Heigl lor of hair and eyes, tempera- 
> 4#ysical— Height, weight, color o a Eyes, ; 
ment, alimentation a A, nature, alcohol, decoctions, 
