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Periodical: The Annals of Psychical Science

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Annals of Psychical Science, The.
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Critical and Experimental Research in the Phenomena of Spiritism.
1905-1910 Monthly, then quarterly
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: Office of the Annals. Editor: Cesare de Vesme, Lauri I. Finch.
1/1, January 1905-9/54, April-June 1910.

This is the English-language version of Annales des Sciences Psychique. Contributions by Charles Richet, Ernesto Bozzano, Ernest Bozzano, et al. A table of contents for the first year has been compiled by the Campbell Theosophical Research Library of Sydney, Australia, and published online at http://116.0.17.135/indices/ANPSSC.HTM. Crabtree 1548.

Other Sources:LOC; NYPL; Columbia University; Cornell University; SUNY, Buffalo; University of Rochester; San Francisco Public Library; Boston Athenaeum; and many other locations in OCLC.
Issues:Volume 1, Jan-June 1905
Volume 2, Jul-Dec 1905
Volume 3, Jan-June 1906
Volume 4, Jul-Dec 1906
Volume 5, Jan-June 1907
Volume 6, Jul-Dec 1907
Volume 7, Jan-Dec 1908
Volume 8, Jan-Mar 1909
Volume 8, Apr-Jun 1909
Volume 8, Jul-Sep 1909
Volume 8, Oct-Dec 1909
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Annals of Psychical Science was the English-language edition of the Continental Annales des Sciences Psychiques, appearing in London in the years around 1905–1910 under César de Vesme and Laura I. Finch. It belongs to the empirical wing of the movement: mediums, seances, materialisations and haunted houses fill its pages not as articles of faith but as cases to be tested, in the manner of Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion and Colonel Albert de Rochas. Its characteristic apparatus is mesmeric and hypnotic — magnetic 'passes,' odic fluid, somnambulic lucidity, and de Rochas's celebrated hypnotic regressions in which entranced subjects were walked back toward and beyond birth. The result is a periodical that reads mediumship and the seance room through the instruments of experimental psychology, an early monument of psychical research rather than of spiritualist devotion.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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