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Butler, not only when sleeping in an arm chair, but chiefly & habitually in bed & in both cases it is when he is fast asleep, not when dozing.2 In his father’s case, it was the same but almost wholly, if not wholly, in bed, for I find the arm chair evidence is weak. The mistake was mine, and was due to my having seen the narrators while sitting in their chairs imitate the movement, whence it never occurred to me that it took place elsewhere than in a chair3 The wives of the two Headmasters were, & Mrs. M. Butler’s is, exceedingly fidgetted by this curious & continually recurring see-saw manoeuvres.4 The granddaughter5 has not, or had not been sufficiently observed—the assertion of her having the trick was based upon a remark of her nurse—but I shall soon hear more. & will then send you a revised statement—if not too late for your book.
Crookes wrote to me that Home’s preference was very important,—for the experiments were far more succesful when he was the medium, than when any one else was & he is now in Russia & will not return till May.6 So I will wait.
Very sincerely yours | Francis Galton
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