'Mescal: A New Artifical Paradise', pp. 537-548 in the General Appendix of Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Ellis (Havelock)

Publication details: Washington: Government Printing Office,1898,

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The first American printing of Ellis's essay, the second of his reports - originally printed in the Contemporary Review' - on his experiments with mescaline, conducted privately, on Good Friday, 1896. The greater part of the volume is given to the 'General Appendix', which is a catalogue of scientific discovery for that year; other notable contributions include Wilhelm Rntgen on X-Rays.

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1898, pp. xlvii, 686, 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, emblem in gilt stamped to upper board, cloth of lower board a little marked, rubbing to extremities, hinges slightly shaken (but secure), inverted on the rear endpapers a later gift inscription as well as a 'Class Library' stamp for the Department of Psychology (who knows where?), good

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