Essays in Psychical Research

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards, block and dj. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Binding is tight.). Black boards with silver spine lettering; bw illustrated dj, mylar cover; xxxvi, 684 pp; bw portrait frontispiece; bw illustrations. Contents include: Essays in psychical research -- 1. Review of Planchette / by Epes Sargent (1869) -- 2. Circulars of the American Society for Psychical Research (1884-1906) -- a. Organization (1884) -- b. Request for information (1884) -- c. Circular requesting information on mediumistic phenomena (1885) -- d. Circular requesting financial support (1892) -- e. Notice concerning dissolution of the American branch (1906) -- 3. Report of the Committee on Mediumistic Phenomena (1886) -- 4. Notes on echolalia in Mrs. Piper (1886) -- 5. Letter on Professor Newcomb's address before the American Society for Psychical Research (1886) -- 6. Letters : James on the religio-philosophical journal (1886, 1890) -- a. An eviable and eminent place in American journalism (1886) -- b. On preserving the Journal (1890) -- 7. Review of Phantasms of the living / Edmund Gurney et al. (1887) -- 8. Letter on Mrs. Ross, the medium (1887) -- 9. Review of "The second report on experimental psychology," / by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1889) -- 10. Notes on automatic writing (1889) -- 11. The census of hallucinations (1889-1897) -- a. International Congress of Experimental Psychology : instructions to the person undertaking to collect answers (1889) -- b. Letter on publicity for the census (1890) -- c. The name hallucination (1890) -- d. The statistical inquiry into hallucinations in America (1892) -- e. Review of Ueber die trugwahrnehmung / by Edmund Parish (1895) -- f. Review of the "Report on the census of hallucinations" (1895) -- g. A correction (1895) -- i. Review of Zur kritik des telepathischen beweismaterical and hallucinations and illusions / by Edmund Parish (1897); 12. A record of observations of certain phenomena of trance (1890) -- 13. What psychical research has accomplished (1892) -- 14. Review of Science and a future of life / by Frederic W. H. Myers (1890) -- 15. Letter to the editor of Mind on Ward's review of Briefer course (1893) -- 16. Review of Annales des sciences psychiques (1894) -- 17. Two reviews of Apparitions and thought transference / by Frank Podmore (1895) -- 18. Telepathy (1895) -- 19. Address of the President before the Society for Psychical Research -- 20. Psychical research (1896) -- 21. A case of psychic automatism (1896) -- 22. Telepathy : controversy with Titchener on Lehmann and Hansen (1896-1899) -- a. Review of "Ueber unvillkürliches flüstern" / by F.C.C. Hansen and Alfred Lehmann (1896) -- b. Review of "Involuntary whispering considered in relation to thought-transference / by Henry Sidgwick (1897) -- c. Letter : Lehmann and Hansen on telepathy (1899) -- e. Letter : telepathy once more, no. 1 (1899) -- Appendix -- 23. Review of "Telepathic dreams experimentally induced," by G. B. Ermacora (1896) 24. Review of I femomeni telepatici e le allucinazioni veridiche / by Enrico Morselli (1897) -- 25. Letter on Mrs. Piper, the medium (1898) -- 26. Review on "A further record of observations of certain phenomena of trance" / by Ricahrd Hodgson (1898) -- 27. Frederic Myers's service to psychology (1901) -- 28. Review of Human personality and its survival of bodily death / by Frederic W. H. Myers (1903) -- 29. Telepathy once more, no. II (1903) -- 30. Letter to James Hyslop supporting the prospectus for an American Institute for Scientific Research (1903) -- 31. A case of automatic drawing (1904) -- 32. Letter to J.G. Piddington on Mrs. Thompson in trance (1904) -- 33. Letter to Isaac K. Funk on The widow's mite (1904) -- 34. A case of Clairvoyance (1907) -- 35. Letter on Dr. Gower and table lifting (1907) -- 36. Physical phenomena at a private circle (1909) -- 37. Report on Mrs. Piper's Hodgson-control (1909) -- 38. The confidences of a "psychical researcher" (1909) -- 39. A possible case of projections of the double (1909).