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554 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
a stir occurred with the cylinder. At no time were the revolutions
of the cylinder rapid and continuous as recorded in experiments
with Dr. Strong and Mr. Hall. The motion was usually
slow. It started rapidly enough in the first experiment with
myself, but would not repeat. The evidence of air currents was
' at least apparent in the trial with lighted matches at the side or
sides of the cylinder. But this will have to be tried more systematically
to decide the matter. The result in this case was
different from previous similar attempts and yet was not uniform
in this case.
The cutting off of air currents by the card boards is not completely
conclusive in favor of such currents because we might
have the phenomenon that Dr. Crawford remarked in his levitation
experiments. Readers will remember that when he walked
between the medium and the levitated table the table would instantly
fall. He found evidence that some sort of energy was
intercepted by interposing matter between the psychic and the
table. The same phenomenon may hold true here, and hence it
will require better experiments to decide that matter.
New York, June 1st, 1918.
I tried a few experiments with the cylinder to test the heat
of the hand and of wax candles. I first tried it by holding in the
hands one on each side of the cylinder. It first oscillated in its
rotation for. a few degrees and then after a pause moved one half
a revolution to the left, paused again and moved another half
revolution to the left. I removed the hands and after a pause
the cylinder turned one half a revolution to the right.
I then tried a wax candle on one side and after a moment
the cylinder rotated to the left a half revolution. I tried two
candles and no special effect was observed.
June 2nd, 1918.
I again tried both types of experiments this morning. First
I held my hands near the cylinder and it alternated in rotation
for some ten or twenty degrees and after a pause repeated this..
Then I removed my hands and sat some twenty inches away.
holding my breath and the same alternation followed. After a
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