PALLADINO AND SCIENCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 925, 19 September 1910, Page 6

PALLADINO AND SCIENCE.

i Madam Eusapia.Palladino is ono of the most famous of living "mediums, and her levitations/ have; convinced men of the standing-of Eombroso ;arid Sir "Oliver. .Lodge.-: /Eusapia _used,- to v have, a long, spiritual, arm,, which/at tiriios could -be : distinctly. seen/ to .grow: out of .her shoulder, reducing her weight,' as recorded by a spring' balance, arid tliis aim ha\ang : stretched across .a. Toom. .and."behind a curtain used 'to animate "various small".'. objects 'in the; most ..convincing . way.'./ However, the latest news is', that her claims have been examined by a "conimi'ttee of 'American scientists, including some very, 1 well-known names. Their' conclusions were "unfavourable to the view that? any supernatural power in. this' case' exists." There' was' some difference ,of opinion, but several members were'convinced that they gained tailed evidence as. to .the material methods 'by which the manifestations were. produced,, and tney concluded that when the medium was sufficiently.secured nothing., happened. Tho sittings ended abruptly. : 'In .particular,' Professor Wood wanted to employ a powerful X-ray apparatus,, so that a. shadow picture could bo obtained, wtheut the knowledge ef the' medium- of whatever, happened in the "cabinet," which in this instance 1 was of wpod built into a doorway. Professor Wood, as a matter of. fact,, actually watched the.said cabinet through a hole in'the roof. .When anything, was-moved ■& black object reaching in from Eusapia's back groped', around. This ■ was. the mj-s----ioi'ious supernatural third- arm. It was this. AVood was. so; anxious to shadbwgranb - ■ ; : •'" " . ■