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sible.* Then he was closely watched, and while the eyelids were 
seen to be perfedtly closed, he read easily. Then adhesive plaster 
was applied, carefully warmed, in three layers, and it was watched 
to see that the adhesion was perfect all round the edges. Again 
the boy read what was presented to him, sometimes easily, some- 
times with difficulty. At the end of the experiments the plaster was 
taken off strip by strip by the committee, and it was found to be 
perfectly secure, and the eyelids so completely glued together that 
it was a work of some difficulty to get them open again. This 
case is recorded, with the names of the committee in the 
“Zoist,” vol. iv., pp. 84—88; and I call the reader’s attention to 
the completeness of the test here, and its demonstration of the 
reality of clairvoyance, as compared with the loose experiment 
and hasty jumping-to-a-conclusion in the case which Dr. Carpen- 
ter thinks alone worthy of record. 
Dr. Carpenter next comes to the work of Professor Gregory 
(“ Letters on Animal Magnetism,”) and devotes several pages to 
assertions as to the professor’s “ credulity,” the “ reprehensible 
facility ” with which he accepted Major Buckley’s statements, 
the “ entire absence of detail ” as to “ precautions against 
tricks,” and his utter failure to find a clairvoyant to obtain Sir 
James Simpson’s bank-note. “ And yet,” he says, referring 
especially to myself, “there are even now, men of high scientific 
distinction, who adduce Professor Gregory’s testimony on this 
subjedt as unimpeachable ! ” Readers who have accompanied 
me so far, will at least hestitate to accept Dr. Carpenter’s dictum 
on this point, till they have heard what can be said on the other 
side. To give full details would occupy far too much space, I must 
therefore refer my readers to Professor Gregory’s book for some 
cases, and give merely a brief outline of others. At page 394 
(Case 29) is given in detail a most remarkable test-case, in 
which Professor Gregory sent some handwriting from Edinburgh 
to Dr. Haddock’s clairvoyant at Bolton ; who gave in return a 
minute description of the writer, her appearance, dress, house, ill- 
ness, medical treatment, &c. At page 401 another test of the same 
kind is described. At page 403 a number of such cases are 
summarised, and one very completely given in detail. At page 
423 is an account of a clairvoyant boy at the house of Dr. 
Schmitz, Redtor of the High School at Edinburgh. This boy 
described Professor Gregory’s house accurately, and the persons 
at that time in the dining-room (afterwards ascertained to be 
corredt). As a further test Dr. Schmitz was asked to go into 
another room with his son and do anything he liked. The boy 
then described their motions, their jumping about, the son going 
out and coming in again, and the dodtor beating his son with a 
roll of paper. When Dr. Schmitz returned, Professor Gregory 
repeated all the boy had said, which the dodtor, much astonished, 
* This is a constant feature of the true mesmeric trance, but “Jack’s” 
accusers seem to have known nothing about it. 
