r"--which was correct. This
impressed me as a good test, with regard to the three last numbers of
this cheque, which were different from the corresponding ones of the
first cheque. Madame Zancig could not see her husband, and he remained
absolutely silent while the experiment was being carried out.

I insert here a note by Sir Oliver Lodge in which he gives an account of
an experiment of a similar nature, and also of other experiments which
he tried with the Zancigs.

"Independently of the more thorough investigations of Mr.
Baggally, I myself was favoured with a private interview
with the Zancigs, who were friendly and considerate and
helpful; and I tried the experiment of having Mrs. Zancig
outside the room, though with door open, and Mr. Zancig with
me and quite silent. I wrote five or six figures on a slate,
taking care to make no noise, and Mrs. Zancig failed to get
them correctly. Zancig seemed distressed at that, and after
a little time groaned out, 'Oh, surely you can do this';
almost immediately after which Mrs. Zancig came into the
room with the correct figures written on her slate. It was
difficult to see how the sentence had conveyed the figures,
but it was instructive to find that utterance of some kind
seemed necessary. It was partly this, and partly the
manifest difficulty of eliminating all possibilities of code
between a pair of performers accustomed to go about
together, with years of experience behind them, that
prevented me from doing what I probably ought to have done,
though circumstances did not render it very easy, namely, to
make a serious study of the Zancig phenomena.

"Moreover, I questioned Mr. Zancig about codes, and found
that he was familiar with a great many. He was quite frank
about it, and rather implied, as I thought, that at times he
was ready to use any code or other normal kind of assistance
that might be helpful, though he assured me that he found
that he and his wife did possess a faculty which they did
not in the least understand, but which was more efficient
and quicker than anything they could get by codes. On the
whole, I think this extremely likely, but the rapidity and
the certainty and dependableness of the power went far
beyond anything that I could imagine as possible between
people who depended on supernorma