8. I have never tried experiments in thought-transference, such as those recorded in the S.P.R. Proceedings. But I have no doubt that words and ideas do pass without speech from my husband's mind into mine. I have specially remarked this a propos of bye-elections, when I feel certain that I have never consciously known the names of the candidates. Many times my hand has written those names (when known to him) truly, and sometimes it has predicted results of elections with an accuracy which seemed to both of us not to be the result of chance. In one case, where a gentleman named Nanney was standing, of whom I was quite sure that I had never heard, my hand kept writing "Goat, Goat." In this case my husband was not present, but some one else who was present knew the name.

Mabel Howard.

"Correct, as far as I am concerned. - Henry Howard".

[These last instances must, according to our canons of evidence, be reckoned merely as revivals of subliminal memory. Names which have been printed in newspapers which have been lying about must be taken as having possibly fallen within the field of at least unconscious vision. The emergence of an unconsciously observed name Nanney in the grotesque form Goat would thus be parallel to the emergence of the unconsciously observed word Bouillon in the grotesque form Verbascum Thapsus, mentioned in Proceedings, vol. viii. P. 455].

Writing later, from P-- Park, April 18th, 1893, Lady Mabel adds:-

9. The H. girls asked what entertainment they should go to directly on arriving in London. The pencil answered, "Lady C." This puzzled us all, as no one knew of an entertainment to be given next week. At last, as it continued writing "Lady C," we gave it up, thinking it must mean dining at home, Lady C. meaning [their mother]. That very evening, eight hours after, a letter arrived from [Lady W. G.] saying Lady Carrington wished to know if the H.'s could dance the minuet at her house on the 27th. They will arrive in London on the 25th. [From a later letter it appears that the Ladies H. knew that this engagement impended, but believed that it would be much later in the season, "and were much surprised themselves at receiving the letter."]

10. I have myself [F. W.H.M.] succeeded in getting two correct answers to questions absolutely beyond Lady Mabel's knowledge. From Thornes House I was asked to luncheon at the house of a gentleman whom I knew only by correspondence, and of whose home and entourage the rest of the party knew absolutely nothing. On my return I asked, "How many people sat down to luncheon?" The answer was "Six," which was right. "What was the name of the gentleman, not my host, with whom I sat and talked after luncheon?" The pencil wrote MO, and then began to scrawl. The name was Moultrie. It was impossible that Lady Mabel should have had any kind of notion that a gentleman of that name would have been present in a group of which she knew nothing whatever. But here the impulse to write seemed spent, and a few further questions were answered by erroneous words or mere scrawls.

11. The following statement, dated Downes, Crediton, Devonshire, April 8th, 1893, is signed by Sir Redvers Buller, K.C.B., and by Miss Dorothy Howard (daughter of Lady Audrey Buller):-

"Lady Mabel Howard was stopping with us this week. She was writing with her pencil just after arriving. Some one asked: 'Where is Don?' The pencil immediately answered, 'He is dead.' Lady Mabel then asked who Don was, and was told that he was a dog. No one in the room knew that he was dead; but on inquiry the next day, it was found that it was so. One of the party then asked how many fish would be caught in the river the next day. The pencil at once wrote three, which was the number obtained the next day.

"A little girl in the house, who attends a school in London, asked who was her greatest friend at this school. The pencil answered Mary, which was again a fact absolutely unknown to Lady Mabel.

"Dorothy E. Howard. "Redvers Buller".