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declared to be correct in every particular. At page 445 (Case 42( 
is an account of another clairvoyant, a mechanic, who described 
Professor Gregory’s house in detail, and saw a lady sitting in 
a particular chair in the drawing-room reading a new book. On 
returning home the professor found that Mrs. Gregory had, at 
the time been sitting in that particular chair, which she hardly 
ever was accustomed to use, and was reading a new book which 
had been sent to her just before, but of which the Professor 
knew nothing. At page 405 is a most remarkable case of the 
recovery of a stolen watch, and detection of the thief in London 
by Dr. Haddock’s clairvoyant at Bolton. The letters all passed 
through Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, who showed them to Professor 
Gregory. At page 407 are the particulars of the extraordinary dis- 
covery of the locality of travellers by means of their handwriting 
only, sent from the Royal Geographical Society to Sir C. Tre- 
velyan in Edinburgh, and by him to Bolton, he himself not 
knowing either the names of the travellers, or where they were. 
Many more cases might be referred to, but these are sufficient to 
show that there is not that “ total absence of detail,” and of 
u precautions,” in Professor Gregory’s experiments, which is 
Dr. Carpenter’s reason for entirely ignoring them. In addition 
to this we have the account of Dr. J. Haddock, a physician practis- 
ing at Bolton, of the girl Emma, who for nearly two years was 
under his care, and residing in his house. Many of Professor 
Gregory’s experiments, and those of Sir Walter Trevelyan, 
were made through this girl, and a full account of her won- 
derful clairvoyant powers is given by Dr. Haddock in the 
Appendix to his “ Somnolysm and Psycheism.” She could not 
read, and did not even know her letters. The discovery of the 
stolen cashbox, and identification of the entirely unsuspected 
thief, is given in full by Dr. Haddock, and is summarised 
in my “ Miracles and Modern Science,” p. 64. Again, Dr. 
Herbert Mayo gives unexceptionable personal testimony to 
clairvoyance at pages 167, 172, and 178 of his book on “ Popular 
Superstitions.” 
Dr. Carpenter is very severe on Professor Gregory for his 
belief in Major Buckley’s clairvoyants reading mottoes in nuts, 
&c., but Major Buckley was a man of fortune and good position, 
who exercised his remarkable powers as a magnetiser for the 
interest of it, and there is not the slightest grounds for suggesting 
his untrustworthiness. We have beside the confirmatory testi- 
mony of other persons, among them of Dr. Ashburner, who 
frequently took nuts purchased by himself, and had them cor- 
rectly read by the clairvoyants before they were opened. (“ Ash- 
burner’s Philosophy of Animal Magnetism,” p. 304.) Dr. 
Carpenter also doubts Professor Gregory’s common sense in 
believing that a sealed letter had been read unopened by a clair- 
voyant when it might have been opened and resealed ; but he 
omits to say that the envelopes were expressly arranged to pre- 
