[1] It is considered to have been the first psychical research society.
[2] It was founded by Edward Ridley and F. C. S. Schiller, with Charles Oman, who served as one of its four presidents.
[2][3][4] Arthur Headlam also served as president.
[5] Similarly to the Society for Psychical Research formed in 1882, it collected and investigated reports of ghosts, hauntings, and psychic phenomena.
[6] Meetings were held in the rooms of Schiller at Balliol College.