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 496 G. M. STRATTON : examples of such harmony were found, as in the case of in- verted vision, during the more rapid and inclusive bodily movements, especially that of walking. Under these cir- cumstances, on the second day, I sometimes felt myself strangely tall, as if my body had been elongated into accord somewhat, with the apparent distance between the ground and my point of view. As yet, however, the tactual sensa- tions in my legs hardly seemed as far away as their visual counterparts. The impressions of sight and touch were apparently referred to the same general direction, but as though the touch-sensations had been attracted toward the visual, without attaining absolute coincidence. There seemed to be little or no corresponding attraction of my head and shoulders. In walking I felt as though I were moving along above the shoulders of the figure below me, although this too was part of myself, as if I were both Sinbad and the Old Man of the Sea. The next day, during a rapid walk with some one guiding me, I had several vivid impressions of a more general harmony of touch and sight, best when the impressions were more or less passively received without searching to detect nice differences of localisation. If I carefully noticed whether my body seemed to be in its older place, this older localisation could always be felt. But in the more languidly receptive attitude during my walk, I had the feeling that I was mentally outside my own body. It was, of course, but a passing impression, but it came several times and was vivid while it lasted. But the moment critical interest arose, the simplicity of the state was gone, and my visible actions were accompanied by a kind of wraith of themselves in the older visual terms. The harmony of touch and sight in the case of my feet and the lower part of my legs was hardly so easily disturbed. Even when I gave careful attention to them during a rapid walk, I had often no consciousness of any different localisa- tion from that reported by sight ; they only seemed strangely projected and far away. After these, the most ready union of touch and sight under the new conditions occurred in the region of my hands. My head and shoulders, on the contrary, were far less tractable, as in the experiment with the in- verting lenses ; and yet in the present experiment they were as much in sight as any part of my body ; so that I cannot any longer attribute the slower development of the harmony in their case to the mere fact that they were less frequently seen under the abnormal condition. It now seems evident that in addition to having the part perceptible by both touch and sight, it is important that the occurrence