National Laboratory of Psychical Research(NLPR)

Research facility established by psychical researcher Harry Price in 1925 at 13 Roland Gardens, London, S.W.7, "to investigate in a dispassionate manner and by purely scientific means every phase of psychic or alleged psychic phenomena." The honorary president was The Lord Sands, K.C., LL.D., and acting president H. G. Bois. Price served as the laboratory's honorary director. The laboratory continued into the 1930s and its major product was the set of publications it published. It issued two periodicals: the British Journal of Psychical Research (bi-monthly, discontinued in 1929) and the Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research (discontinued in 1929).

The laboratory also issued occasional Bulletins of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, which include: (I) Regurgitation and the Duncan Mediumship, by Harry Price (1932); (II) Fraudulent Mediums, an essay by D. S. Fraser-Harris, formerly published from Science Progress (January 1932); (III) The Identification of the "Walter" Prints, by E. E. Dudley (1933); (IV) An Account of Some Further Experiments with Rudi Schneider, by Harry Price (1933); and (V) Rudi Schneider: The Vienna Experiments of Prof. Meyer and Przibram (1933).

One of the most valuable issues of the NLPR Proceedings was vol. 1, pt. 2 (April 1929), comprising the Short-Title Catalogue of Works on Psychical Research, Spiritualism, Magic, Psychology, Legerdemain and Other Methods of Deception, Charlatanism, Witchcraft and Technical Works for the Scientific Investigation of Alleged Abnormal Phenomena from circa 1450 A.D. to 1929 A.D. compiled by Harry Price. This catalog (supplemented by Bulletin I, (1935) listed the splendid collection assembled by Price himself. Since Price's death (1948), the collection has existed as the Harry Price Collection, at the Senate House, University of London.

Sources:

Tabori, Paul. Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost-Hunter. London: Atheneum Press, 1930.