[The nature and development of the percipients' impressions are fully discussed. Miss B.'s impressions were mostly visual, and generally seemed to develop gradually. Sometimes her eyes were opened, and she was made to see the number as a hallucination on a piece of paper. The number then sometimes appeared in a fragmentary way, and was liable to appear and disappear. On one occasion it was suggested successfully that the percipients should hear the numbers repeated instead of seeing them.

In forty-five out of the seventy-one experiments made in Mrs. Sidgwick's lodgings (the third section of the table given on p. 550), the numbers were guessed by means of table-tilting, MissB. in forty-one cases being in a normal condition at the time, and tilting out the numbers apparently quite automatically. In four cases, being hypnotised, she tilted out the numbers with the table, and at the same time made verbal guesses, which were different from those made through the table. The same method was used occasionally with P. and T., and on one evening the percipients were made to guess the numbers both verbally and by planchette-writing. A detailed comparison of the verbal guesses with those made unconsciously at the same time is given on pp. 550-52 of the paper. The two guesses were in most cases different No more success was obtained with these automatic methods than by guessing in the ordinary way.

1 These experiments are described in 569 B.

A table is given of the experiments of each day, with Miss B. as percipient, in guessing numbers of two digits, the agent, Mr. Smith, being in a different room. I summarise this table as follows: -

Experiments In Transferring Ideas Other Than Numbers

The most successful experiments under this head were those in which Mr. Smith was merely concentrating his mind on a "mental picture " of some sort, without looking at any real representation. The person who carried on the conversation with the percipient during the course of each experiment, and took notes of his remarks, was generally ignorant of the subject of the picture.

The percipient was sometimes made to receive the impression as a fully externalised visual hallucination seen with open eyes; usually as a picture on a blank white card on which he had been told that a picture would appear, and occasionally in a crystal used in the same way.1 Latterly, the percipients were generally induced to see the pictures when hypnotised with closed eyes. Full details are given of the experiments which the writers regarded as successful, with accounts of some failures, also a tabulated list of all the experiments tried. Those with agent and percipients in the same room are summarised by the authors as follows: -

1 Compare the similar experiments with P. and T. described in 624 A.

I quote the first seven experiments with Miss B., of which four are counted as successful, viz. Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 7.

The first experiments with Miss B. took place on July 9th, 1890. The percipient, being in a hypnotic trance, had her eyes opened, and was given a card and told to look out for a picture which would come on it.

No. 1. The subject, chosen by Mrs. Sidgwick. was a little boy with a ball. Mr. Smith sat close to Miss B., but neither spoke to her nor touched her. Miss B. presently said, "A figure is coming - a little boy." Mrs. Sidgwick asked what he had in his hand, and Miss B. replied, "A round thing, a ball, I suppose".

No. 2. For the next experiment Mr. Smith sat behind a screen. The subject, a kitten in a jar, was again set by Mrs. Sidgwick. Miss B. said, "Something like an old cat - a cat - I think it's a cat." Mrs. Sidgwick. - "What is the cat doing?" Miss B. (doubtfully). - "Sitting down." Mrs. Sidgwick. - "Is there anything else but a cat? " Miss B. - " No, only scratches about".

No. 3. (Failure.)...

No. 4. Subject: a Christy Minstrel with a banjo (chosen by Mrs. Sidgwick, who took the notes). Miss B. said, "Therés something long, something round in that one - a little cage of some sort - something that looks like a cage; yet therés something like a handle. A can! oh, it's a can! It's quite clear now." We then gave her a fresh card, and Mr. Smith moved round from behind the screen and sat close to her, still without speaking.

No. 5. The same subject (continued). Miss B. said, " Something here dark - a hand." Mrs. Sidgwick. - " Is it a woman's hand or a man's? " Miss B.

"A black hand." This seemed to be a partial success.

Mr. Smith then woke Miss B. up to ask her when she had to go, but finding that there was still a little time to spare, re-hypnotised her, and tried another subject.

No. 6. A sailing-boat on the sea. Mr. Smith sat behind the screen. Presently Miss B. said, " A man - black. Hés got something in his hand - an instrument - sort of guitar thing." As we had not spoken about the Christy Minstrel and banjo, this tardy emergence of the idea when Mr. Smith was thinking of something else, and after awaking and re-hypnotisation, was interesting.

We then changed Miss B.'s card, and Mr. Smith continued to think of the sailing-boat, but Miss B. only saw something like a bear, and we changed her card again. Of course during these changes we told her nothing about the subject, nor whether it was changed, nor whether she was right or wrong. Miss B. then said, "Very funny thing" (shaking her head); "can't see it coming to any figure. Therés a mess - it doesn't come to any shape".

No. 7. At this point Mrs. Sidgwick asked Mr. Smith to come from behind the screen and sit near Miss B. Miss Johnson, who did not know what the subject of the picture was, asked Miss B. whether it was anything like an animal. Miss B. said, "No - got some prong sort of things - something at the bottom like a little boat. What can that be up in the air? Cliffs, I suppose - cliffs in the air high up - it's joining the boat - oh, sails - a sailing-boat - not cliffs - sails." This was not all uttered consecutively, but partly in answer to questions put by Miss Johnson; but as Miss Johnson was ignorant of the subject of the supposed picture, her questions could, of course, give no guidance.