sentences:  A Treatise on One of the Objective Forms of Psychic or Spiritual Phenomena" in 1878.In it, he coins the term "psychography" (from "psycho" and "graphy") for the spiritualist concept of channeling messages from the dead via automatic writing (also known as "independent writing", "direct writing" or "spirit writing").Moses was one of the first vice-presidents of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).