Excerpt from The Society for Psychical Research, Its Rise Progress A Sketch of Its Work: With Facsimile Illustrations of Three Pairs of the Thought-Transference Drawings
The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882, a little over twenty years ago. In January of that year a Conference of persons interested in certain branches of enquiry, which, in their opinion, had not received adequate attention and investigation from the literary and scientific world, met in London.
Six years previously, in 1876, Professor W. F. Barrett (now F.R.S.), of Dublin, read a Paper before the Meeting of the British Association in Glasgow, in which he gave a record of a series of experiments he had made, that led him to the belief that under certain conditions a transference of thoughts and ideas from one mind to another could occur, independently of the recognized channels of sensation. He urged the formation of a committee of scientific men to investigate this subject, along with other psychical phenomena, such as the so-called spiritistic manifestations which had been attested by distinguished men like Sir William Crookes and Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace. Owing to various causes, Professor Barrett"s proposal fell through. The Paper, with some omissions and verbal alterations, is published in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. i., pp. 238 - 244. Professor Barrett returned to the question in letters to the Times and Spectator during 1876 and 1877, which elicited additional evidence. The results of further experiments on thought-transference in the normal (i.e., not hypnotic) state are recorded by Professor Barrett in the columns of Nature for July 7th, 1881.
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