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electroscope or the sensitiveness of his balance, and the magnifying power of his microscope. The observations made by Mr. Hodson on the electric current were not completed in one day, and it was part of the interest of the work to the other members of the Group to find how each day’s experiments, for so we may call them, confirmed or amplified the previous facts ascertained. The problem of observing what constitutes an electric current in a copper wire is not just as simple as it may sound. It is not possible, with the instruments at present available, merely to look at the wire and give instantly a complete description of what occurs. It is first necessary, as will be seen, to clear the ground by obtaining a knowledge of the wire itself in its normal state, its condition and surroundings, and in the very details described in the course of this work lie perhaps the greatest “proofs” of the truth of the observations; for while an effort of the imagination might suffice to give some sort of description of a current, it would be impossible to give, time after time, the wealth of detail that was forthcoming after patient examination, much of which detail is itself confirmed from other sources unknown to the clairvoyant. A current of about half an ampere was passed through a circuit consisting of a small storage battery in series with a key and adjustable resistance. Part of the fairly thick copper wire used was left bare for observation. Mr. Hodson first examined the copper wire with no current flowing. The wire was found to have a sapphire blue aura round it extending to a distance of about doable the thickness of the wire. A continuous discharge of very fine particles was being given off at right-angles to the wire. In this stream were to be seen points of golden light like tiny explosions. This stream was visible, etherically, for about two inches, and then became so fine as to be invisible amid the innumerable radiations from other objects in the room. With Astral sight this stream was seen to consist of minute glowing particles which moved so fast that they appeared to form a line and to travel a great distance into the air. The current was now switched on, and with etheric sight the radiations just described did not seem at first to be in any way affected. Later experiments led Mr. Hodson to observe that, when the current was put on, there was a tendency for the emitted particles to curve instead of going straight out, forming something like a spiral coil round the wire.