[{195}] Proceedings S. P. R., xv. 7.
[{196}] Animal Magnetism, pp. 61-64, 1887.
[{199}] The Psychical Society has published the writer’s encounter with Professor Conington, at Oxford, in 1869, when the professor was lying within one or two days of his death at Boston, a circumstance wholly unknown to the percipient. But no jury would accept this as anything but a case of mistaken identity, natural in a short-sighted man’s vague experiences. Mr. Conington was not a man easily to be mistaken for another, nor were many men likely to be mistaken for Mr. Conington. Yet this is what must have occurred. There was no conceivable reason why the professor should ‘telepathically’ communicate with the percipient, who had never exchanged a word with him, except in an examination.
[{205}] Proceedings of Society for Psychical Research, viii. 111.
[{206}] Proceedings of Society for Psychical Research, xiv. 442.
[{207a}] Modern Spirit Manifestations. By Adin Ballou. Liverpool, 1853.
[{207b}] Proceedings of Society for Psychical Research, xiv. 469.
[{209}] Edinburgh, 1827, vol. i. p. xxxii.
[{214}] In the author’s case the hypnagogic phantasms seem to be created out of the floating spots of light which remain when the eyes are shut. Some crystal-gazers find that similar points de repère in the glass, are the starting-points of pictures in the crystal. Others cannot trace any such connection.
[{215}] Compare Blackwood, August, 1831, in Noctes Ambrosianæ.