GURNEY, EDMUND (1847-1888), English psychologist, was born at Hersham, near Walton-on-Thames, on March 23, 1847. He was educated at Blackheath and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and found his life-interest in that outlying field of psychology which is called "Psychical Research. In 1882 the Society for Psychical Research was founded, the first results being embodied in Phantasms of the Living, 2 vols. (1886), in the Proceedings of the Society, and in Gurney's remarkable essay, Hallucinations. The chief consequence was to furnish evidence for the process called "telepathy." In addition to his psycho logical writings, Gurney was the author of The Power of Sound (188o), and Tertium Quid (1887), a collection of essays. He died at Brighton on June 23, 1888, from the effects of an overdose of narcotic medicine. See PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.