Conferences and Congresses - File 1, 1896 - 1968
Scope and Contents
File labelled 'Congresses, international' containing:
1. 4th International Congress for Psychical Research in Athens (1930).
Letter to Professor Driesch from W.H. Salter (12 February 1930) re Harry Price’s attendance.
Correspondence between Salter and Dr Tanagras (1930).
Photograph of attendees and diary of the congress.
2. 5th International Congress for Psychical Research to be held in London (1932). Lapsed.
Correspondence between W.H. Salter, Mr Vett and Mrs Goldney (1951-53).
3. Congress at Copenhagen (1921). Resolutions only and provisional programme.
4. 7th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, Oxford (1964).
‘Plethysmograph results over distances and through a screen’. E. Douglas Dean.
‘Preliminary experiments with a ‘borrowed’ outstanding ESP subject’. J.G. Pratt and J.G. Blom.
‘Spontaneous paranormal phenomena in Amsterdam’. J. Kappers et al.
‘An investigation into the personality traits of people with so-called spontaneous phenomena’. R.P. Greiner.
‘A method for investigating PK without recourse to ‘statistical proof’. H. Forwald.
‘An ESP test for speakers using computer scoring’. R.L. Taetzsch.
5. Abstracts of papers at Munich Congress (1896).
Report of congress by J. Mark Baldwin. The Nation 55/ 1419 8 September 1892.
Abstracts in alphabetical order of author in native language. Includes C. Richet (in French) and H. and E. Sidgwick (in English). Reports and other programmes.
6. 3rd Congres International de Recherches Psychiques, Paris (1927). Programme only.
7. ‘Mediumship and Depth Psychology’. Lectures by H.H. Price and R.H. Thouless, given at Moor park College, Farnham, April 1965.
8. Guildhall Lecture by J.B. Rhine (1965). Pamphlet about lectures generally and newspaper cuttings re telepathy (October 1965).
9. Professor C.E. Mace Myers Memorial Lecture (1937). ‘Supernormal faculty and the structure of the mind’. (2 copies).
10. Moscow Conference [Removed to Congresses and Conferences File 2]
11. Invitation to 5th International Congress of Psychical Research in Oslo (1935).
Dates
- Creation: 1896 - 1968
Creator
- From the Fonds: Society for Psychical Research (1882-) (Organization)
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