[220] See Annales Médico-Psychologiques, 1882, p. 75, and Dr. Berjon, La grande Hystéric chez l'Homme, Paris, 1886.
[221] Annales Médico-Psychologiques, 1884, vol. ii. p. 289 seqq.
[222] Dr. E. Dufour, médecin en chef de l'asile Saint-Robert (Isère). See Annales Médico-Psychologiques, September 1886, p. 238, and Contribution à l'étude de l'hypnotisme, par le Dr. Dufour, Grenoble, 1887.
[223] It was not unusual for her to sit in the salon in the evening, after the day's occupations were over.
[224] I noted on this narrative at the time I received it: "This account is entirely concordant with the account written by Mrs. Ramsay before reading Mrs. Elgee's account in 1888, and abstracted by me for an article in Murray's Magazine. There was this discrepancy between Mrs. Elgee and Mrs. Ramsay,—that Mrs. Ramsay thought that the figure wore a beard, whereas Mrs. Elgee saw him as she knew him—with whiskers only. He certainly had no beard at the time."
[225] A plan enclosed shows a suite of four rooms, M. Potolof's study, the ante-room, the drawing-room, and M. Mamtchitch's study, all opening into one another, the three doors between them being in one straight line.
[226] See "Phantasms of the Dead from another point of view," Proceedings S.P.R., vol. vi. p. 291.
[227] We have ascertained that this date was a Sunday.
[228] Some of the correspondence about the case given in the Proceedings is omitted here for want of space.
[229] A dream in which a message of somewhat the same kind is given is recorded in the Journal S.P.R., vol. vii. p. 188. See also the old case of Dr. Binns, given in his Anatomy of Sleep, p. 462.