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IN 1912 Mr. Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, and one of the trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University of California, placed at the disposal of the University the sum of 10,000l., the interest on which was to be applied to investigations in the field of spiritualism and psychical research, and Dr. Jordan, the president of the University, asked if the department of psychology was willing to assume the responsibility of applying the endowment to work in this field. After some natural hesitation and consultation with other universities, the offer was accepted. The endowment sufficed not only to refit and equip the laboratory rooms assigned to the work, but also to defray the expenses of a fellowship, to which Dr. Coover, a trained psychologist, was appointed. The present bulky volume constitutes his first report.
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Experiments in Psychical Research 1 . Nature 103, 135–136 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103135a0
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