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I HAVE received from Dr. G. M. Beard of New York (well known for his studies of Trance and related states) a letter in reference to the experiments with Mr. Bishop, of which Mr. Romanes has given an account in NATURE. Dr. Beard, writing before our experiments were carried out, mentions his own investigation, years ago, of much more remarkable performances than Mr. Bishop's, and incloses an article “On the Physiology of Mind-Reading”, which he contributed to the Popular Science Monthly (New York) as far back as February, 1877. If this article had been shorter I would fain have asked you to reprint it, giving as it does a far more varied record of facts than came under our observation, and a series of carefully-drawn conclusions within which our conclusion falls. I will only say that if I had known of this article I should hardly have thought it worth while to spend time in the trial of Mr. Bishop's powers, or even had the curiosity to attend that first meeting amid the cloud of scientific witnesses.
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ROBERTSON, G. The Physiology of Mind Reading. Nature 24, 236 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024236d0
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