ABSTRACT
IN this chapter I shall give a fairly full account of the experimental work in card-guessing carried out by Dr S.G.Soal with two subjects whose names I have already mentioned, viz. Mr Shackleton and Mrs Stewart, as patients. Dr. Soal was at the time and for many years afterwards Lecturer in Mathematics at Queen Mary College in the University of London. At the time of his recent retirement, on reaching pensionable age, he was Senior Lecturer there in that subject. He has worked in other branches of psychical research besides experimental card-guessing, having contributed to Vol. XXXV, Part 96, of the S.P.R. Proceedings, an important study of a case of trance-mediumship under the title ‘A Report on some Communications received through Mrs Blanche Cooper’, which I shall refer to in a later chapter.
