Zöllner: an open letter to Professor George S. Fullerton, of the University of Pennsylvania, Member and Secretary of the Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism.
London: Printed by the National Press Agency, Limited, ND [ 1887 ]. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. Booklet. 40pp. Original stapled wrappers, lettered in black on upper cover. Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834 – 1882) was a German astrophysicist and psychical researcher who set up a series of experiments with the medium Henry Slade which he evidently believed offered some confirmation of spiritualist claims. A few years later these claims were examined by the Seybert Commission on Spiritualism (1884–1887) in which faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania undertook an investigation of the claims of a number of respected Spiritualist mediums. In the course of this, the secretary of the commission, George Stuart Fullerton, claimed that Zöllner's English translator, C. C. Massey, had told him that the professor had an "unsound mind" at the time of the Slade experiments. In this booklet, Massey refutes those assertions, and writes of Zöllner at some length. Covers rubbed darkened and somewhat discoloured, with a couple of tiny splits at spine, internally bright and clean. An unmarked VG+ example of this unusual booklet. Item #62142
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