ut the experiment. In his own laboratory Dr.
Ochorowicz then procured a fresh plate and held it in the air, at some
distance from the hand of the medium. The latter then said: "Ah, I see
another right hand detaching itself from my arm and approaching the
plate. How it pains me! Yes, it is placing itself over the plate--it is
done."

Dr. Ochorowicz then took the plate with him at once to the dark room
and, when it was developed, there was found the outline of an unformed
hand--one apparently in the process of condensation. It was, as it were,
a hand in embryo. It had apparently become detached, or had detached
itself, from the medium, and remained sufficiently solid to leave an
impression of itself upon the plate, held about half a metre from it. It
was, in fact, a form of materialization, but of so shadowy a texture
that it remained often quite invisible to the onlooker.

A long series of experiments is then described, which might be condensed
somewhat as follows:--

"The somnambule said that she did not see the double's hand leave
hers, but saw it placed upon the plate. It was placed upon it at an
angle of ninety degrees from the position taken by her own hand. At
my request the thumb was made particularly distinct, the whole hand
being quite different in contour from that of the medium.

"I take another plate, and hold it some distance from the medium's
hand. She makes an effort to impress it, with the result that an
immense finger, superhuman in size, is seen upon the plate when
developed. Upon the next plate, which I hold about twenty-five
centimetres from her hands, three fingers appear, non-luminous--the
light seeming to come from behind the hand, and shining through the
spaces between the fingers.

"I now hold a plate at a distance of one metre from her right
hand, which is held up in front of her. The red light is turned
slightly low. The somnambule sees a shadowy hand detach itself from
hers, which is at the same time, also, attached to a very long,
thin arm, and which approaches the plate. The hand is very large,
she says, and is a right hand. It places itself over the plate,
which I thereupon remove and develop. A large hand is distinctly
visible upon it. Finally, I hold a plate two and a half metres away
from the medium's hand. The somnambule shivers and feels cold in
her lower limbs, despite th