My dear Mrs. Fisher,--I have much pleasure in signing your application for the Psychical Research Society, though the majority of the active members are so absurdly and illogically sceptical that you will not find much instruction in their sayings. Mr. Podmore's report in the last-issued _Proceedings_ is a good illustration.... We have all been in Switzerland this year. Violet, her mother, and five lady friends all went together to a rather newly-discovered place, Adelboden, a branch valley from that going up to the Gemmi Pass by Kandersteg. I went first for a week to Davos, to give a lecture to Dr. Lunn's party, and enjoyed myself much, chiefly owing to the company of Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, one of the most witty, earnest, advanced, and estimable men I have ever met. Dr. Lunn himself is very jolly, and we had also Mr. Le Gallienne, the poet and critic, and between them we had a very brilliant table-talk. Mr. Haweis was also there, and one afternoon he and I talked for two hours about Spiritualism. He is a thorough spiritualist, and preaches it....--Yours very sincerely, ALFRED R. WALLACE. TO MRS. FISHER _Parkstone, Dorset. April 9, 1897._ My dear Mrs. Fisher,--I have tried several Reincarnation and Theosophical books, but _cannot_ read them or take any interest in them. They are so purely imaginative, and do not seem to me rational. Many people are captivated by it--I think most people who like a grand, strange, complex theory of man and nature, given with authority--people who if religious would be Roman Catholics. Crookes gave a suggestive and interesting, but in some ways rather misleading address as President of the Psychical Research Society. I liked Oliver Lodge's address to the Spiritualists' Association better....--Yours very sincerely, ALFRED R. WALLACE. * * * * *