He was awarded the latter's Myers Memorial Medal in 2004 for outstanding contributions to psychical research.

BBC: Academic and writer Archie E Roy dies aged 88

The academic was also a Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research and a member and past president of the London-based Society for Psychical Research.

BBC: Academic and writer Archie E Roy dies aged 88

Ms Warner is also illuminating on the apparent gullibility of some 19th-century scientists and rationalists, such as the members of the British and American societies for psychical research.

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