Abstract
An early April 1875 the renowned zoologist at St. Petersburg University, Professor Nikolai Petrovich Vagner published a letter On the Subject of Modern Spiritualism in Vestnik Evropy enthusiastically describing the mediumistic phenomena he had heard and seen at seances of the French medium Camille Bredif in 1874. These phenomena (rapping, sounds, partial materialization of spirits, and so on), Vagner asserted, not only bore witness to the fact that life beyond the grave was a reality but also opened new horizons for science, which, he argued, should begin to study manifestations from the spiritual world.1 D. I. Mendeleev, Public Lecture on Modern Spiritualism.
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