Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (borderlandsciences.org)
Visit: 2026-10-08. Found through Google site:borderlandsciences.org "Le Bon" OR "Le Beau"; pages fetched by script and saved in research/pages/bsrf-*.
Stake: BSRF sells xerographic copies of Le Bon's two books (B0036, B0037) and publishes Gerry Vassilatos's articles that recommend them. Everything here is that interested party's characterization, except the 1896 press reprint in item 1, which BSRF republishes.
Found [web]
- 1896 press notice, "Dark Light" - https://borderlandsciences.org/project/aura/article/SciAm_on_LeBon_Dark_Light.html. BSRF's file name says SciAm; the text says it follows the Literary Digest and translates from Cosmos (Paris, 23 May [1896]). Key sentences: "M. Le Bon's experiments have been described before the French Academy of Sciences, a sufficient proof that they have been performed in good faith; but his conclusions have been usually looked upon with suspicion, men of science having generally thought that he has been deceived by the filtration of light through chinks in his plate holder, or by some similar action." And: "Le Bon's experiments have been unaccountably neglected in this country. They are so simple that it should be easy for almost any one to prove the truth or falsity of his claims, yet no one apparently has thought it worth while to take the trouble." It reports his paper "read on May 11" [1896] widening "dark light" to cover all radiation that affects a plate but not the eye, and his new copper-plate experiments aimed at the light-leak objection. Bearing: claims 4 and 5. It is a contemporary statement of the main objection (light leaks through the plate holder) and of the fact that, in the US at least, no test had been published by May-June 1896.
- Catalogue page "Radiant Energy" - https://borderlandsciences.org/cart/radiant-energy/ - lists Le Bon "Evolution of Matter", Le Bon "Evolution of Forces", T. Henry Moray "Radiant Energy", Moray "Talk on Radiant Energy", Crookes "Radiant Matter". Evolution of Matter is described as "the copy of a rare and sought-after manuscript from 1906" (stapled, 475 pp). No "Girard Le Beau" or "Evolution of Matter and Energy" title is listed (the third book the 1990 review promised).
- Catalogue "Flying Saucers" - https://borderlandsciences.org/cart/flying-saucers/ - J. Resines booklet (B0086) blurb: "an electrogravitic experiment by Dr Le Bon carried on by about 1907". Not described further; lead only.
- Vassilatos, "Induced Radioactivity by Solar Light", J. Borderland Research 53(3), 1997 - https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/53/n03/Vassilatos_on_Solar_Induced_Radioactivity.html. Google snippet: "The modified experiment which Le Bon conducted was imminently simple: a simple magnesium plate on which sunlight was focused by a lens." The opening rests on an unnamed-source anecdote from the late W. G. Lehr (rooftop copper made radioactive by decades of sunlight; "based on classified knowledge which he would never divulge"). Bearing: claim 3 (light releases energy from ordinary bodies); a later secondary account, not read in full.
- Vassilatos, "Black Waves - Their Meaning & Value", JBR 48(4) - https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/48/n04/Vassilatos_on_Black_Waves.html. Snippet: "Le Bon's vision of Atomic energy was more sublime than the scientific personnel at Los Alamos ever dreamed of." The page also describes a Dan Winter experiment (two galena detectors with carnotite on the catwhiskers) as "the most important such experiment to date in the field of Moray research", and Paul Brown's claim that Moray's device was a nuclear battery (which Vassilatos disputes). Bearing: claim 6 (the Moray connection as BSRF tells it).
- Other pages listed by Google that mention Le Bon in passing (not read): Vassilatos on Reichenbach's Od; "Recording Telluric Signals" (JBR 48(6): "a strange natural radioactivity (G. Le Bon) whose essence is vitalistic"); "White-Ray Conductors" (1992); "Drawing Usable Electrical Power from the Aurora Borealis" (JBR 53(2)).
- The 1990 review itself (the project document) is still online: https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/46/n02/LeBon_Evolution_of_Forces_Matter_Review.html (rechecked; text matches the printout).
Bearing on the claims
- Claim 6: BSRF's wider corpus repeats the Moray-Le Bon link but adds no Moray statement. Moray's own statements were found instead in the owner's Moray project (see research/2026-10-08-local-Morray-TH.md).
- Claim 4/5: item 1 is a contemporary (1896) neutral-press record of the light-leak objection and of the lack of tests.