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The old and the new magic (1906)

Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · Chicago : The Open court Pub. Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 33

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. Borcherdt of Hamburg, who bought them,with other objects of interest, from the estate of the deceased.Professor Zollner. The seals of these slates are by no meansso intact as not to arouse the suspicion that they have beentampered with. To a superficial inspection they appear unbroken,but the… … The Opening of Slades Slate by Means of a Heated Wire.(After Willmann.) Professor Zollner, the most famous victim of the bold me-dium, lacked entirely the necessary critical faculty, and becamean easy prey of fraud. One of his colleagues, a professor ofsurgery in the University of Leipsic, had…

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