1
It is absolutely necessary that all experiments should be recorded in detail during, or immediately after, their performance.
2
It is highly important to note the physical and mental condition of the experimenter or experimenters.
3
The time and place of all experiments must be noted; also the state of the weather, and generally all conditions which might conceivably have any result upon the experiment either as adjuvants to or causes of the result, or as inhibiting it, or as sources of error.
4
The A∴A∴ will not take official notice of any experiments which are not thus properly recorded.
5
It is not necessary at this stage for us to declare fully the ultimate end of our researches; nor indeed would it be understood by those who have not become proficient in these elementary courses.
6
The experimenter is encouraged to use his own intelligence, and not to rely upon any other person or persons, however distinguished, even among ourselves.
7
The written record should be intelligibly prepared so that others may benefit from its study.
8
The Book John St. John published in this first number of the "Equinox" is an example of this kind of record by a very advanced student. It is not as simply written as we could wish, but will shew the method.
9
The more scientific the record is, the better.
Yet the emotions should be noted, as being some of the conditions.
Let then the record be written with sincerity and care; thus with practice it will be found more and more to approximate to the ideal.
