• At a recent meeting of the Psychical Research Society,
Mrs. Henry Sedgwick read a paper describing a long series of experiments in Thought Transference, which had been undertaken by the family and friends of Professor Gilbert Murray, with the professor himself as the "percipient." Lord Balfour, who took part in the dis- cussion, and had been present at some of the experi- 'silents, expressed himself most definitely on the result of the experiments :— " I would urge everyone' (he said) 'who really wants to make a
true picture of the world in which we live to remember that these experiments are conclusively proved—that there is a wholly unknown, unexplained, unconjectured method of traversing space between two self-conscious organisms in a manner on which no theory of sound or electricity or any theory on which we have the dimmest notion can at the moment throw any light.'"
The last of these experiments was made on Saturday; December 6th, at Mr. Gerald Balfour's house. The com- pany sat in the drawing-room, decided on a subject, and one of them read it out in a quiet voice. Professor Murray, who was waiting in the dining-room, was then called in, arid on five occasions out of ten was able to tell the others what they had been talking about.
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