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IN September last the ” University of London Council for Psychical Investigation” issued an invitation to an exhibition of fire-walking. Much attention was given to the subject in the daily Press, and an account of the demonstration was contributed by Mr. C. R. Darling to NATURE of September 28, p. 521. From the reports it is not clear what psychical investigation had to do with the heat-resisting properties of the soles (? souls) of the feet; but what was more important was the interest apparently taken by the University of London in an unusual method of studying thermal conductivity. On inquiring, indeed, of the Principal, I was told that the University of London Council for Psychical Investigation had no connexion with the University of London : if it had none with psychical investigation either, that might explain the matter. Since then, however, the ” Honorary Secretary of the University of London for Psychical Research” has given an exclusive film interview, which was advertised recently in the programme of the Gaumont-British Movietone News Theatre. ” Psychical Research”, in spite of the Principal, has clearly come into its own.
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HILL, A. ” The University of London Council for Psychical Investigation”. Nature 136, 955 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136955a0
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