Passing over the details of many other experiments we find that the following remarkable results were obtained by the committee:  “Altogether, three hundred and eighty-two trials were made in this series.  In the case of letters of the alphabet, of cards, and of numbers of two figures, the chances of success on a first trial would naturally be 25 to 1, 52 to 1, and 89 to 1, respectively; in the case of surnames they would of course be infinitely greater.  Cards were far most frequently employed, and the odds in their case may be taken as a fair medium sample, according to which, out of a whole series of three hundred and eighty-two trials, the average number of successes at the first attempt by an ordinary guesser would be seven and one-third.  Of our trials, one hundred and twenty-seven were successes on the first attempt, fifty-six on the second, nineteen on the third—­making two hundred and two, out of A possible three hundred and eighty-two!” Think of this, while the law of averages called for only seven and one-third successes at first trial, the children obtained one hundred and twenty-seven, which, given a second and third trial, they raised to two hundred and two!  You see, this takes the matter entirely out of the possibility of coincidence or mathematical probability.

But this was not all.  Listen to the further report of the committee on this point:  “The following was the result of one of the series.  The thing selected was divulged to none of the family, and five cards running were named correctly on a first trial.  The odds against this happening once in a series were considerably over a million to one.  There were other similar batches, the two longest runs being eight consecutive guesses, once with cards, and once with names; where the adverse odds in the former case were over one hundred and forty-two millions to one; and in the other, something incalculably greater.”  The opinion of eminent mathematicians who have examined the above results is that the hypothesis of mere coincidence is practically excluded in the scientific consideration of the matter.  The committee calls special attention to the fact that in many of the most important tests none of the Creery family were cognizant of the object selected, and that, therefore, the hypothesis of fraud or collusion is absolutely eliminated.  The committee naturally came to the conclusion that the phenomena was genuine and real telepathy.

Prof.  Balfour Stewart, LL.D., F.R.S., who was present at some of these experiments, though not a member of the committee, expressed great amazement at some of the results.  He reports:  “The thought-reader was outside a door.  The object or thing thought of was written on paper and silently handed to the company in the room.  The thought reader was then called in, and in the course of a minute the answer was given.  Definite objects