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_THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES._
EDITED BY HAVELOCK ELLIS.
APPARITIONS
AND THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE.
APPARITIONS
AND
THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE:
_AN EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE
FOR TELEPATHY_.
BY
FRANK PODMORE, M.A.
_WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS._
LONDON:
WALTER SCOTT, LTD.,
24 WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1894.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
INTRODUCTORY 1
Position of the subject--Founding of the Society for
Psychical Research--Definition of telepathy--General
difficulties of the inquiry--Special sources of
error--Fraud--Hyperæsthesia--Muscle-reading--Thought-forms and
number-habit.