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author endeavoured to describe the appearance of the radiations; he found four sets of these, which are described as follows. The author’s descriptions are in ordinary type, and the corresponding comments by the Group in smaller type. (1) A rosy lavender radiation was seen all round the UO1, as a kind of aura. (2) Particles which are discharged and travel in straight lines to a distance of about 1in. and then appear to lose their charge and fall at a distance of about 2 x 1/2 ins. from the UO2. These are readily recognizable from the point of view of physical science as a particles; the range in the air at N.T.P. being found to be just under 3 inches. (3) Very dynamic particles which shoot off with great velocity and penetrate through the roof and appear to be lost in space. They are yellow in colour, and each particle resembles a spinning top; they repel each other, and are most distinct under astral vision; they are deviated by a magnet as would be the ease if they carried a negative charge. These resemble β particles, which are deviable by a magnet and have a negative charge. They are 1/1,800 the mass of the H atom and art 100 times more penetrating than the particles; they are absorbed by 1 mm. of lead. (4) An emanation of a greyish colour which is discharged in all directions and even penetrates the 1/2 in. of lead. The γ Rays are non-deviable and exceedingly penetrating, passing through 200mm, of lead or 2 feet of iron. Mr. Hodson then endeavoured to study more closely the actual substance, of uranium oxide, and found a unit which he described as resembling a soda- water bottle of the old type; at the centre was a kind of nucleus consisting of a ring of particles, and around these and moving upwards there was a spirally arranged force. This figure appears to represent the atom of UO1 described in “Occult Chemistry”5 and consisting of two oxygen snakes with the uranium unit as the bottle arrangement together with the ring of electrons. Tin also gives a bottle shape.