, similar to the one I have just described, between two agents
and one percipient, which Sir Oliver Lodge carried out in the year 1884.

When the experiment was tried with Miss Telbin, Mr. Thomas, and myself I
was not aware that Sir Oliver Lodge had already tried an experiment of a
like nature.

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S ACCOUNT

"My own first actual experience of thought transference, or
experimental telepathy, was obtained in the years 1883 and
1884 at Liverpool, when I was invited by Mr. Malcolm Guthrie
of that city to join in an investigation which he was
conducting with the aid of one or two persons who had turned
out to be sensitive, from among the employees of the large
drapery firm of George Henry Lee & Co.

"A large number of these experiments had been conducted
before I was asked to join, throughout the spring and autumn
of 1883, but it is better for me to adhere strictly to my own
experience and to relate only those experiments over which I
had control.

"Most of these experiments were confirmations of the kind of
thing that had been observed by other experimenters. But one
experiment which I tried was definitely novel, and, as it
seems to me, important; since it clearly showed that when two
agents are acting, each contributes to the effect, and that
the result is due, not to one alone, but to both combined.
The experiment is thus described by me in the columns of
_Nature_, vol. xxx., page 145, for 12th June 1884:--

"_An Experiment in Thought Transference_

"Those of your readers who are interested in the
subject of thought transference, now being
investigated, may be glad to hear of a little
experiment which I recently tried here. The series
of experiments was originated and carried on in
this city by Mr. Malcolm Guthrie, and he has
prevailed on me, on Dr. Herdman, and on one or two
other more or less scientific witnesses, to be
present on several occasions, critically to examine
the conditions, and to impose any fresh ones that
we thought desirable. I need not enter into
particulars, but I will just say that the
conditions under which apparent transference of
thought occurs from one or more persons,
steadfastly thinking, to another in the s