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...years a number of eminent men have been convinced exponents of supernaturalism. The movement sprang largely from the British Society for Psychical Research, organized in 1882, among whose founders, presidents, or sympathizers have been numbered Lord Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Alfred Russell Wallace, Lord Rayleigh, Prof. Gilbert Murray, F. W. H. Myers, Sir William Crookes, Andrew Lang, Prof. Henry Sedgwick, Richard Hodgson, Sir James Barrie, Conan Doyle, and in France, Professors Henri Bergson, Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion. In Germany, Z�llner, Fechner, and Weber, all distinguished scientists, were confirmed spiritualists. In the United States, similar organizations have...
...Various theories have been elaborated which attempt to explain what are regarded as incontestable facts, but so far with no very satisfactory result. The membership roll of the Society has included many of England's foremost men, Henry Sedgwick, A. J. Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Lord Rayleigh, Alfred Russell Wallace and Professor Gilbert Murray...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Recent Papers by Rayleigh and A. B. Porter," Professor Sabine, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
Physical Colloquium. Lord Rayleigh on the Induction Coil. Mr. G. A. Anderegg. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor Richards lectured to the Boylston Chemical Club last night on the discovery of Argon and Helium. His lecture was a technical explanation of the experiments that resulted in the discovery of these gases, and was made especially clear by the introduction of practical illustrations. He said that Lord Rayleigh, professor in the Royal Institution in London, discovered Argon and Helium, after several years experimenting in gases, about a year...