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Edmund Gurney

1847–88

Psychical researcher and psychologist. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1871; fellow of Trinity, 1872–77. Wrote on the psychology and philosophy of music, including The power of sound (1880). Founding member of the Society for Psychical Research, 1882; honorary secretary, 1883. Co-authored Phantasms of the living (1886), a study of telepathy.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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