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58 Bennett present. I said, "There, I have just had an intimation Robert is dead." Time, 9.40 Noted full particulars on my return: was called away. Had to see a customer on business.

Miss E. Bennett, who was present at the moment and Miss Lottie Young, a niece to whom Mr. Young related his experience on the following morning, have both confirmed the account. Mrs. Ponting has searched unsuccessfully for Mr. Young's original letter to her announcing his presentiment.

Mr. Young, it should be added, has had several similar impressions which have coincided with external events.

Let us now pass on to visual impressions. The following case is interesting as showing the peculiar vividness with which these mind's eye visions occasionally present themselves.

No. 14. From Miss C. P. M. C.

(The account was written in the beginning of June, 1889.)

I distinctly saw a person whom I knew (M. T.) lying in bed, and the room and furniture exactly as I last saw it. I had the impression of hearing her voice. The impression was so vivid that for the time it stopped my reading, and I remember being surprised at it and wondering whether the woman were alive or dead. I had had a letter three days previously saying she was dying. She had been an invalid when I first saw her, so that I never knew her otherwise than in bed.

Place: probably in the Geological Museum. Date: May 14, 1889, Tuesday, in the morning.