us defined in Articles 11-18:--

The Society shall consist of: (_a_) _Members_, who shall subscribe two
guineas annually, or make a single payment of twenty guineas, (_b_)
_Associates_, who shall subscribe one guinea annually, or make a single
payment of ten guineas.

All Members and Associates of the Society shall be elected by the
Council. Every candidate for admission shall be required to give such
references as shall be approved by the Council, and shall be proposed
in writing by two or more Members or Associates.

All subscriptions shall become payable immediately upon election, and
subsequently on the first day of January in each year. In the case of
any Member or Associate elected on or after the 1st October, his
subscription shall be accepted as for the next following year.

Article 22 provides that if any Member or Associate desire to resign,
he shall give written notice thereof to the Secretary. He shall,
however, be liable for all subscriptions which shall then remain
unpaid.

Ladies are eligible either as Members or Associates.

Privileges of Membership.

Articles 19 and 20 provide that Members and Associates are eligible to
any of the offices of the Society, and are entitled to the free receipt
both of the _Proceedings_ and of the _Journal_, to the use of Library
books in the Society's rooms, and to attend all the General Meetings of
the Society, to which they are also allowed to invite friends. They are
further entitled to purchase the _Proceedings_ of the Society issued
previous to their joining it,--and also additional copies of any Part or
Volume,--at half their published price.

Members have the additional privileges of borrowing books from the
Library, and of voting in the election of the Council, and at all
meetings of the Society.

A contents sheet of the whole series of _Proceedings_ may be had on
application to the Secretary, 20 Hanover Square, London, W.

FOOTNOTES:

[2] Any reports or papers which may be printed in the _Proceedings_ will
become the Society's property; but author or authors will be entitled to
receive 50 copies of any such report or paper gratis, and additional
copies, if required, at a small charge.

Mrs Piper

and the

Society for Psychical Research

CHAPTER I

Mrs Piper's mediumship--Is mediumship a neurosis?

Mrs Piper is what the spiritualists call a _medium_, and what t