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Experimental Thought Transference
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flag or a key, follow. Next she appears to have made a fresh start, drawing three diagrams, one of which is R. 10, d. To these she appends the note: "always come back to the same thing. Probably he has sent nothing." Finally, on one corner of the sheet, she draws a Greek key pattern, marked "afterwards."[1]

The two ladies who conducted the experiments next to be quoted have had considerable success in previous similar trials. It is to be noted that in the first of the two cases quoted the transferred impression, if indeed it may be claimed as "transferred," was wholly auditory—to wit, fragments of the word "candlestick" and the sound of a train. In the second experiment, however, the impression was visual. There were four experiments altogether in this series on four successive nights in December, 1895. In the other two trials the

  1. Journal, S. P. R., 1896. pp. 325–328.