"Shortly before a second visit the name of a certain Mr. R. suddenly occurred to the patient, and as he did not remember ever having had anything to do with a person of this name, ho concluded that the knowledge of bis name must belong to the Australian period which was lacking in his memory. He was unable to form any idea as to the appearance or position of this gentleman. On inquiring of Mr. D., one learned that R. was the name of a certain person who must have been connected with our patient in business in Australia.

"The larger proportion of his property, and obviously all those things which he had got shortly before his departure or in Australia, were new and unfamiliar things to the patient. He did not know how he had become possessed of them, but was even astonished at the appearance and quality of his articles of clothing. Even the finding of the visiting-card of an English stranger, presumably an acquaintance on board ship, and a sheet of note-paper bearing the name of the steamer by which he had sailed to Australia, did not assist him in awakening a wider circle of impressions of memory. The same also applies to his own visiting-card, on which the post he held in Australia was attached to his name. He regarded all these proofs of an epoch which had passed out of his consciousness with visible astonishment.

"The following episode is curious and very interesting. In it Mr. N. succeeded in reawakening a tiny portion of his lost recollections. It struck him, while he was riding on the electric trams, which travel very rapidly in this place, but which make a great deal of noise, that he experienced a curious sensation, and that he must have been in a similar tram before in his life, which had traveled just as quickly, and which made an absolutely similar vibrating noise. But he was sure that the tram of which he was thinking did Dot have overhead wires, but derived its electric current from a live rail below the ground. There was not a single tram-line of this kind in any of the towns which he could remember, and therefore he had to come to the conclusion that he was dealing on this occasion with a recollection from his stay in Z.

"Since it appeared to be quite hopeless to wait for any further spontaneous filling in of the defects of the memory, an attempt was made to deal with the amnesia in the following hypnoses by means of suggestion. For this purpose the episode of the electric tram, mentioned above, was used as an association. Mr. N. was subjected to the suggestion that he was seated in a car of the said tramway, that he was able to recall all the details again, and also to remember the passengers traveling with him in the car. One was actually able to record a result in this, inasmuch as the patient was capable during the hypnosis of describing the construction of the car and the distribution of the seats, both of which differed greatly from that of the ears in this town. On being asked which route the tramway followed, he cried out, 'Uphill, uphill!' several times. He was only able to say of the passengers in the car that they had thinner faces than the inhabitants of this part of the world. The patient made a little sketch of the construction of the tram-cars on awakening from the hypnosis. On inquiring of Mr. D., we learned that Mr. N. had actually ridden daily in the tram-cars, that the route really went uphill, and that the arrangements were certainly of the type which was shown by his account.

"Lastly, it must be stated that the patient assured us very definitely twice or three times in the morning that be hud dreamed that he was in Australia, and that be bad spoken to various persons there. However, all the details had entirely disappeared in the meanwhile, so that one could not gain any further associations from this.

"After the attempt to awaken the memory by means of the forgotten episode had only been followed by a very slight result, it appeared for some time as if the case would not be accessible to a continued hypnotic treatment. Professor Forel began to give up all hope of restoring the memory for the amnesic period after some weeks had passed without any progress having been made. But before the observations were discontinued he got the idea of choosing the last-remembered time of Mr. N.'s stay in A. as the starting-point of the suggestion instead of the stay in Australia. This change in method brought with it an unexpected result. During several hypnoses, which one was gradually able to render deeper and to induce more rapidly, the period into which he was now required to transfer himself was sketched out to him in outline progressing consecutively, and it was suggested to him that he would remember all the details of this period exactly at once, and after he had awakened. After the patient had related what he knew afresh, a second hypnosis was frequently induced at once, and in this the suggestion was given to continue from that point which bad been reached in the previous hypnosis.

"The first result consisted in Mr. N. remembering that during the latter part of his stay in A. he no longer attended his college regularly, but had devoted himself instead to cycling. In response to the suggestion that he would remember all that had taken place prior to his appointment, the name of a certain official suddenly occurred to him (we can call him Bernhard), and this was soon followed by an exact description of his appearance and clothing. In connection with this, Mr. N. recollected that he had paid this gentleman several visits, and that it was through him that the preliminaries had been gone through. After the next hypnosis it suddenly occurred to the patient that he had undertaken a journey to the capital shortly after Christmas, but he was not able to give any account of his stay there. It was only after the following sitting that he was able to mention the name of the hotel where he had put up in response to a corresponding suggestion; he also named the street in which the hotel was placed, the duration of his stay, and the business transacted with the official board. Then he gradually gained a clear remembrance of the town, which he had never visited before. The remembrances regained in this way never extended beyond the time which had been limited by the suggestion given. When beginning his account the impressions of memory never appeared to be very distinct, and Mr. N. generally began with an ' I believe,' or 'It seems to me as if.' It was only in the course of the following sittings that the pictures gained in clearness, and united themselves to form a consecutive story. The patient further succeeded in recalling to mind his journey back to A., and the preparations for his journey, which were then beginning. In connection with this, first of all it occurred to him that he had ordered two dozen shirts and eighteen pairs of pants; then followed the short run down to the port of embarkation, and he also remembered having paid a visit on his way. He was a little doubtful as to the actual recollection of the port, since he had stayed there a few times previously. The suggestion was now given to the patient that his memory for the whole sea-trip would also be restored to him, and this also succeeded in the course of a few fresh hypnoses, the procedure being always as has already been described. At first he suddenly recollected the names of the captain and of the ship's doctor, then he remembered some of his fellow-passengers, and the arrangements and life on board. He remembered that they had passed through the Suez Canal during the night, and that it had taken an unexpectedly long time. He was able to recall calling in at Aden extremely clearly; he was particularly struck by seeing the inhabitants decked in white turbans, and by seeing camels lying on the shore. In connection with this came the remembrance of a period of great heat, and then the calling in at Colombo (Ceylon). He first related about the fertile vegetation of this island, and about a little trip which be made into the interior of Ceylon, but was somewhat hazy as to the destination of this trip. The reawakening of the recollection of landing in Australia, and of the early period of his stay in Z., offered greater difficulties. Still, after repeated hypnoses one succeeded in reestablishing the impressions of the various ports at which they called, among which was the port of L. At first the patient was only able to say with regard to Z. that it must have been very dry there, and that the vegetation was largely comprised of eucalyptus trees and conif-erae. To begin with, he stated that he did not recollect anything about the town itself. Then the recollection of the Botanical Gardens suddenly came back to him, and also of various trips which he made into the surrounding country. He spoke of his landlady by a certain name, which he had remembered some time before, but which he could never associate with any definite person. He then recalled his lodgings and his club, where he frequently went, and in this way he said, after a time, that he was again feeling quite at home in Z. He also remembered Mr. D. and his family.