Six experiments were made with Mr. Smith looking at the finger through the opera-glass at a distance of from 22 to 25 feet; in three cases the experiment succeeded, in three another finger was affected instead of that selected. Fourteen experiments were made with a closed door intervening between percipient and agent; 2 only succeeded, and in 8 a wrong finger was affected, no effect at all being produced in the remaining 4 cases. In a further series of 4 trials Mr. Smith held his hand near the percipient, and willed to produce no effect. The trials were successful. In all these experiments P. was the percipient. The rigidity was tested, as before, by asking the subject to close his hands; the anæsthesia, as a rule, by touches or the induction coil. Tested by the latter means it was found, as the current was gradually increased to the maximum, that the insensibility was not always complete. Flexibility and sensation were usually restored, for economy of time, by means of upward passes; but a few trials made later in the series served to show that the finger could be restored to its normal condition by a mere effort of will on the part of the agent. In some cases when their attention was specially directed to their sensations the subjects were able to indicate beforehand the finger operated on, by reason of the feeling of cold in it. But as a rule they appeared to be unaware which finger was affected. It is perhaps needless to point out that no conscious effort on their part could have produced the results described. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 43: Cases are recorded in the _Zoist_ and other publications of the period. See the instances, quoted in _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. pp. 89-91, of the Rev. J. Lawson Sisson, Mr. Barth, Mr. N. Dunscombe, and Mr. H. S. Thompson. Traditions of the marvels wrought by the last-named gentleman still linger in Yorkshire society, and will no doubt demand the serious attention of future students of folk-lore.] [Footnote 44: _Bulletin de la Soc. de Psychologie Physiologique_, 1885.] [Footnote 45: _Annales des Sciences Psychiques_, vol. iii. pp. 130-133.] [Footnote 46: See the account of his experiments on "Peculiarities of certain Post-hypnotic States," _Proc. S. P. R._, vol. iv. pp. 268-323.] [Footnote 47: "L'Automatisme Psychologique."] [Footnote 48: _Proc. Soc. Psych. Research_, vol. iii. pp. 6-23.] [Footnote 49: Mr. Newnham explains that "five or six questions were often asked consecutively without her being told of the subject that was being pursued."] [Footnote 50: Previous questions had been asked on the same subject, and the first syllable had already been correctly written. On a subsequent occasion the same question was repeated and a wholly incorrect answer was given.]