We are assured, in reference to Mr. Crookes' article on
Mr. Home and his "psychic force," in the Quarterly Journal of Science, noticed in these columns a fortnight ago, that a paper, to the same effect as the article, was offered by Mr. Crookes to the Royal Society, of which he is a member, and declined by the Committee on the following grounds :—The Royal Society, they said, was quite open to communications advocating the existence of a force in Nature as yet unknown, if such communications contain scientific evidence adequate to establish its probability ; but that, looking to the inherent improbability of the case stated by Mr. Crookes, and the entire want of scientific precision in the evidence adduced by him, the paper was not regarded as one deserving the attention of the Royal Society. So Mr. Crookes must now go to work again with stricter tests and better witnesses, U he would vindicate his own and Dr. Huggins's skill as observers..
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