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RefNoACS/1/3/3/7
AltRefNo86425
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [John Walter] Gregory, Geology Department, The University, Glasgow, to [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton [Esquire], 66 Victoria Street, London, S. W. 1
CreatorGregory; John Walter (1864 - 1932)
Date6 December 1927
DescriptionAcknowledges previous correspondence. Informs he has received a letter from Lord Farrer suggesting physical experiments and a letter from the Dean of Westminster, who said that the twig moves with him when he holds it lightly between thumb and finger, removing the possibility of attributing it to muscular action, maintaining he has no idea where water is likely to occur. Supports the suggestion of a society of water diviners who would collect precise information as to their success and failures but doubts the reliability of what they might publish. Comments on the contradictory claims of water diviners and difficulties in organising any test that would apply to more than the individual diviner on a particular day. States that arranging a test where the diviners can recognise when water is flowing through a pipe or channel is simple enough but that diviners would probably say the conditions were abnormal, if they were to fail. Supposes diviners would not be keen to work in a laboratory, or an enclosure.
Extent2p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1348Gregory; John Walter (1864 - 1932); geologist and naturalist1864 - 1932
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
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