He answered there on the spot to my question why he had not told me the strange dream when I mentioned snakes as we clambered up the peak or when we were speaking with the boys, that he had not thought of the dream during our walk until a moment before this snake was met and that at that moment the dream had come into his mind with such vividness as to make him look where he was walking with some care.

"The snake was large enough to have had half-a- dozen or more rattles. It had a single rattle - not a button - and looked as though disease or crushing or some unusual accident had deprived it of the rest

"These are the facts, as I remember them, very hastily narrated. The experience was altogether unique for me at least I will send you this direct without having spoken to my brother of the experience since leaving the Springs in the month of August last

"Arthur B. Kinsolving."

In the following cases the aversion of the fulfilment owing to the recollection of the dream is an important feature.l

"We were living in about 188- in Hertford Street, Mayfair. One day I determined that on the morrow I would drive to Woolwich in our brougham, taking my little child and nurse, to spend the day with a relation. During the night I had a painfully clear dream or vision of the brougham turning up one of the streets north of Piccadilly; and then of myself standing on the pavement and holding my child, our old coachman falling on his head on the road, his hat smashed in. This so much discomposed me that when in the morning I sent for the coachman to give his orders, I almost hoped that some obstacle to the drive might arise, so that I might have an excuse for going by train. The coachman was an old and valued servant I asked him if he would have the carriage ready to drive to Woolwich at ten. He was not given to making difficulties, but he hesitated, and when I suggested eleven instead, he said that he would prefer that hour. He gave no reason for his hesitation, and said that the horse was quite well.

I told him almost eagerly that I could quite well go by train; but he said that all was right.

1 Vol. xi, part xxix. of Proceedings S. P. R.

"We went to Woolwich and spent the day. All went well until we reached Piccadilly on the return journey. Then I saw that other coachmen were looking at us; and looking through the glass front of the brougham I saw that the coachman was leaning back in his seat, as though the horse were pulling violently, of which, however, I felt no sign. We turned up Down Street. He retained his attitude. My dream flashed back upon me. I called to him to stop, jumped out, caught hold of my child, and called to a policeman to catch the coachman. Just as he did so the coachman swayed and fell off the box. If I had been in the least less prompt, he would have fallen just as I saw him in my dream. I found afterwards that the poor man had been suffering from a serious attack of diarrhoea on the previous day, and had gradually fainted from exhaustion during the drive home. He was absolutely sober, and his only mistake had been in thinking that he was strong enough to undertake the long drive. In this case my premonitory dream differed from the reality on two points. In my dream we approached Down Street from the west; in reality we came from the east. In my dream the coachman actually fell on his head; the crushing of his hat on the road being the most vivid point of the dream.

In reality this was just averted by the prompt action which my anxious memory of the dream inspired"

Signed by Lady Z

"1st April, 1884.1

"Last year I dreamt that a certain cotton mill, insured in our company, was burnt The mill was one that I had never seen, nor was I acquainted with any member of the firm; and nothing to my recollection had been before me connected with the insurance for some years. On reaching the office the following morning I turned up the surveyor's report, which I found to be rather meagre, and one that had been made some years before. I accordingly gave instruc tions to have the place re-inspected, and when this was done it was found that the mill was in an unsatisfactory condition. Not being able to relieve ourselves during the current year for any portion of the amount for which it was insured we re-insured with another for part of the amount A few months afterwards the mill was partially destroyed, our company saving, through the action I took in consequence of the dream, near upon a thousand pounds."

1 Vol. viii part xxii of Proceedings S.P.R.

(The true name of the secretary is signed, but is not for publication.)

The next case is from Colonel Reynolds, now of Cheltenham, who is personally known to me, and is an excellent witness.

"Cheltenham, 13th December, 1891.

"About the year 1870 I was in charge of a length of roadway, together with the bridges, large and small, that carried it Sometimes there were floods which endangered the bridges, and I was therefore always on the look out to prevent serious damage which would have impeded the traffic. At the same time this had been my daily life for so long that no anxiety remained in my mind about it I regarded my duties as merely routine work. I was in a fairly good state of health. One night I dreamt in a most vivid manner that I saw an exact picture of a certain small bridge. All the surroundings were complete and left no doubt as to which bridge it was. A voice at the same moment said to me: 'Go and look at that bridge '. This was said distinctly three times. In the morning the dream still persisted in my mind and so impressed me that I rode off at once about six miles to the bridge. Nothing was to be seen out of the ordinary. The small stream was, however, coming down in flood. On walking into the water I found to my astonishment that the foundations of the bridge had been entirely undermined and washed away. It was a marvel that it was still standing. Of course, the work necessary to preserve the bridge was done.