Stories by William McDougall

The following statement by Dr. McDougall, member of the Scientific American's Psychic Committee, was printed in the Boston Evening Transcript for February 18, 1925, and is reprinted here by courtesy of the editor of that newspaper. Formal statements by the members of the Psychic Committee (including Dr. McDougall) regarding the Margery case were printed in the Scientific American for April, 1925. Dr. McDougall's article, given below, is in amplification of his previous statement and outlines some of the evidence on which the claim of Margery to the Scientific American's prize was rejected by the Committee