The following series of experiments were conducted at Cambridge, the operator being Mr. Green, of Emmanuel College. The agents (present during all the experiments described) were Mr. W. and Mr. Buttemer. The series of experiments commenced on November 12th, 1892: prior to this Mr. Green had made one or two more or less successful attempts at automatic writing, but the obvious difficulty of avoiding the chance of conscious interference where the questions put were asked aloud had prevented the following up of these till the suggestion was made that the questions should be written down and concealed from the operator. Under these conditions a trial was made on the above date, time 2 p.m., the questions being known only to the two agents. No one else was present.

Q. What is number on machine? (an automatic dice-box, none of the three having seen the numbers on it). A. Give another.

Q. Who is ill on this staircase? A. Ke pike pike. (A man of that name, Pike, was ill, as all were aware; but Mr. Green had not seen the question.) All then (Mr. Green included) looked at the dice-box, and saw the number - seven - on it.

Q. Why would you not answer first question? A. Seven.

Another question was then correctly answered.

Q. What is the matter with H. T. Green? Answer referred to previous question.

Question was put again, still without Mr. Green seeing it. A. A bad cold. (Correct).

Q. Why cannot (Mr. W.) write with planchette? A. W--, you mean.

There is nothing in good health. Liver is not in good condition.

Q. Whose liver is not right? A. i. (Irrelevant.) ii. Nobody particularly.

Q. (By Mr. Buttemer.) Where am I going this afternoon? After waiting some time the answer was written rapidly. A. Away, away, away.

Mr. Green knew where I was going, but did not write a more definite answer automatically.

Eight questions were put in all, of which four were answered immediately and correctly, and two after a sentence referring to the previous question had been written. The first and third were not answered, the answer to the first being unknown to the agents, while at the third Mr. Green's subliminal consciousness appeared to seize the opportunity of showing its just-acquired knowledge of the first. [When two answers are given, the operator was simply told to write again, after the first irrelevant answer, without being shown the question; except where otherwise stated].

At the next sitting, on the 14th November, Messrs. W., S., and Buttemer were present, while Mr. Green operated planchette, as before. Six questions [the answers to which were known to the agents] were put in the same way, two being answered directly and unmistakably, while one was answered after some irrelevant writing, two incorrectly, and the last was not answered, the operator appearing tired.

November 2.0th. Agents and percipient as before. 4 p.m.

The questions were put in the same way.

Q. Who is J. O. F. M.? (The initials being given in the question, we wished the name to be written.) A. i. Man. Dean. (Rather illegible.) ii. Murray. (Right. Dean of Emmanuel).

Q. Who is G. R. S.? (Only S. knew who was meant.) A. Not S--.

(Here S. told the other agents the name - Smith.) Mr. Green wrote "Sleep," and became drowsy. He was spoken to, to rouse him, and the question was written.

Q. Why did you become drowsy and write "Sleep"? A. H. T. Green (pause) cannot help himself.

Q. Why? A. He is tired, he is tired, he is tired. (Written very fast).

January 31th, 1893. 4 p.m. Agents as before, with the addition of Mrs. H. and Miss B.

Q. How many cups of tea did Miss B. have? A. i. Cannot be ascertained, ii. It was in all two - 2 2 2. (Correct).

(When a second answer was waited for, care was taken that the writer should glean no idea of the question in the interval).

Q. What engraving is on the wall over the piano? (It was one of the Queen soon after her marriage.) A. i. You may perceive it was so. (Apparently referring to previous question.) ii. It is a girl, the daughter of a man.

Q. Who was playing the piano when the ladies came in? A. i. The clock hath stricken five. (The clock struck just as Mr. Green began to write.) ii. Mr. S. (This was correct).

Q. What was it? A. i. The one that was asked first, ii. Something, iii. Explain yourself more clearly.

Q. What was S. playing when we came in? A. i. The original one of all. ii. All I can say is "La Cigale." (Correct).

Two more questions were answered correctly, and then the writer began writing on a subject in his mind at the time, and four more questions that were put received no direct answers.

February 18th. 8 p.m. Mrs. H., Miss B., Mr. and Miss M. present, in addition to Mr. Green, and Messrs. S., W., and Buttemer.

Mr. Green, as usual, operated planchette, and on this occasion sat with his back to all the other persons present.

Q. (from Mr. M.) What was I doing this afternoon? A. i. -- the sun

-- (all else illegible), ii. Enjoying the fresh air of heaven.

Q. What was Mr. Rogers doing in Cambridge? A. i. (Irrelevant, or possibly connected vaguely with the question.) ii. Ask another, but Mr. Rogers came up on important business connected with the Lodge. (Correct).

Q. Where has Mrs. M. gone? A. i. (Irrelevant.) ii. Far, far away, but more next time. iii. Her mother has gone to - oh, what a happy place is London ! iv. All change here for Bletchley. (Mrs. M. had possibly passed this station on her journey).

Q. Who has won the Association Match to-day? A. i. (Illegible.) ii. Oh, ye simple ones, how long will ye love simplicity? Why, Oxford, of course. [This fact was known to some persons in the room, but not to Mr.,Green].

One of the company then suggested the attempt to get the name on a visiting card transmitted, and the question was written, "Write name on card." Mr. Green did not know that this experiment was about to be tried, and the card was picked from a pile at random. The name was John B. Bourne. A sentence was written by Mr. Green, which proved to be, "Think of one letter at a time and then see what will happen." We did so. A. i. J for Jerusalem, O for Omri, H for Honey, and N for Nothing, ii. B for Benjamin, O for Olive, U for Unicorn. (The remaining letters were given incorrectly).

Q. How many of the Society's books are here? (There were two volumes of Proceedings on the table.) A. i. (Irrelevant.) ii. The answer is 100-98.

Q. What is 2 X 3? Two irrelevant answers were given, possibly owing to a slight disturbance in the room. The third answer was - "When that noise has ceased and S. has finished knocking the lamp over I say 6".

A trial shortly after this, February 19th, gave no results, and the power of automatic writing appears to have entirely left Mr. Green for the present.