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290 ]()Urnal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
that with materials that might produce an effect on a plate without
affecting the retina. There was nothing of the kind visible and I
did not wish at this stage to remove that obstacle to evidential
results. But these two objections remain to anything that might
occur on the plate, except certain forms which it would not be
possible under the circumstances for Mr. Martin to have prepared.
It is worth remarking as important that, when I asked Mr.
Martin, after the sitting, if he was able to take such pictures with
other people's cameras, he replied that he had tried it, but had
never succeeded in it. He had heard of making them without a
camera, but he had never tried it. I suggested that we must try
both kinds.
Mr. Martin had a print of the negative taken on the 14th ready
for me this morning on my arrival. It has a small face partly covered
by my own. It appears to be the face of a female, whether of
a child or older person I cannot tell. It might be the face of a boy.
The mouth and part of chin are covered by my ear, and the whole
of the left side of the face is concealed by my head. It is not
recognizable as that of any person I ever knew, at least I recall
none such. The consequence is that there is not a mark in the
picture that would suggest the possibility of anything supernormal.
August 19th, 1918.
I had the plates exposed yesterday developed this morning at
Ossen's developing rooms. I had the plates in my sight and charge
until they were handed to the developer and I witnessed the process,
the plates not going out of my sight until developed. There was no
figure on them whatever. They showed that they had been overexposed.
I also myself inserted two more plates of my own in my holder
The box of them I had in my valise and opened it myself and inserted
the plates.
I went immediately to Mr. Martin's and he showed me the
print from his own exposure which was made with his own plate.
He also had no result.
I then arranged to have the two exposures of my own plates '
first and one of his own by himself afterward. I first examined the
camera and found that it revealed no evidence of any concealed
means for producing figures on the plates. In fact the exposures,
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