Records, 1893-1984 and n.d. (bulk 1930-1965).

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Records, 1893-1984 and n.d. (bulk 1930-1965).

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Chiefly correspondence and research files, as well as legal and financial papers, clippings, and photographs. Includes records of the laboratory primarily during its operation at Duke University, 1930-1965. Contains personal and professional papers of J.B. Rhine, L.E. Rhine, J.G. Pratt and other laboratory staff members, such as Rhea White. There are editorial files (1942-1959) of Dorothy Pope, Managing Editor of the JOURNAL OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY, and papers (1957-1963) relating to Rhea White and J.G. Pratt as officers of the Parapsychological Association. Topics include extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, displacement analysis, the Psychical Research Foundation, grants for parapsychology research, mediums, spirit survival, and the teaching of parapsychology. J.B. Rhine's correspondence with major figures in parapsychology and other fields is represented in the collection. Correspondents include Hereward Carrington, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Joseph Jastrow, C.G. Jung, William McDougall, and Henry Margenau. Margaret Mead, Gardner Murphy, Oliver Leslie Reiser, Upton Sinclair, Ian Stevenson, and Warren Weaver are also represented.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Established in 1935. Became Institute for Parapsychology at the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man in 1965. From the description of Records, 1893-1984 and n.d. (bulk 1930-1965). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122299535 ...

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