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I heard the same account from my brother, Major Scott Moncrieff, on his return from India. « Mary Anne gC0TT Moncrieff. [As a matter of form, we have verified the date of death, in the obituary of the Scotsman. But such verification of course adds nothing unless the date of the percipient's experience is independently remembered.] The next example is from Miss Barr, of East Grinstead, who has been already mentioned (p. 342). 1884. (161) On the night of January — ■, 1871, I awoke up with the idea that someone was moving by the bedside. I was a little frightened, and I saw the curtain at the side of the bed slightly pulled aside, and a hand, with the back turned towards me, appearing round the curtain. I recognised the ring on the hand as that of my cousin and dear friend [Captain C. M.]. I told my sister in the morning that I had seen a hand,1 wearing a ring, but did not tell her that I had recognised the ring, as I did not care to make too much of the incident. On that day, as we learnt from a letter received a few days afterwards, my cousin died in Canada, from the effect of an accident. » j^ Barr. Mrs. and Miss Harriet Barr also attest with their signatures the fact that the vision was narrated before the news of the death was received. Miss L. Barr afterwards stated that she thought the death must have been on or about the 6th of January, 1870 ; and we find from the Indian Army List, and from the Times obituary, that it took place on that day, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. She tells us that she has experienced in her life only one other hallucination, which occurred in close connection with a bereavement (see p. 510).