Smaller site visits, 2026-10-08 (partial, negative and blocked results)

One section per site. Queries are listed with each; all are also in sites.md "Keywords tried".

rexresearch.com - positive (related work, priority 3)

URL: http://www.rexresearch.com/moray/moray.htm (saved research/pages/rex-moray.htm). Fetched while looking for Moray's Le Bon citations. Content: "Thomas H. Moray: Transmutation of Low Grade Ores by High Energy Bombardment" - a 1965 booklet of papers given at the 68th National Western Mining Conference, Denver (4 Feb 1965), by Research Institute, Inc. (Salt Lake City): W. J. Hooper (Prof. Emeritus, Principia College), "Great Expectations for Artificial Transmutation"; Ruth L. Hendricks, "History of Research"; Thomas E. Rudolph, "Statistical Evaluation Report"; plus John E. Moray's 1964 paper "Recovery of Minerals from Low Grade Ore by High Energy Bombardment". Hooper: "A study of the many experiments carried out by Mr Moray and his coworkers, with assays made by a wholly independent firm, of ore samples before and after irradiation by the Moray process, is indeed most impressive. I find no avenue of escape whereby the validity of these experiments can be dismissed lightly." The page does not mention Le Bon (0 hits). Bearing: claim 6. Vassilatos says Le Bon's bombardment experiments "pre-date Moray's transmutation experiments"; this is the Moray transmutation programme he refers to, as presented by the Moray company and its consultant (interested parties).

scribd.com - partial

Query: "Girard Le Beau" "Evolution of Matter". Result "Archivemaster" (https://www.scribd.com/document/450970890/archivemaster): a 14-page spreadsheet "Alchemy Archive Reference" whose Google snippet includes "Evolution of Matter' was at one time impossible to obtain" and "Indestructibility of Girard Le Beau. Mass must go". The page's text layer is obfuscated; the readable content could not be extracted. It appears to index the same BSRF review. Also seen in results only: "Homemade Lightning" by R. A. Ford (snippet: "Gustave Le Bon of Belgium. His two books on physics, The Evolution of Forces (1908) and The Evolution of Matter (1910), caused an uproar in scientific ..."; it describes the calcium sulphide experiment) - not opened.

academia.edu - blocked (did not open)

Query results: "89116-The-Sea-of-Energy-in-Which-the-Earth-Floats" (Moray) and "Gerry Vassilatos Lost Science". The click from Google did not load the page in the tab; not retried. Not needed for Sea of Energy, which the owner has (see local-Morray-TH note).

gallica.bnf.fr - blocked

curl to the SRU API returned 403; in Chrome the page loaded but the extension reported "Permission denied for reading page content on this domain". Retry next run (Comptes rendus 1896-1902; Revue scientifique 1897-1903; Le Bon's French editions).

core.ac.uk - blocked

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/50563704.pdf (De Heen, "La Matière ...", per Google snippet "DE HEEN. PROFESSEUR DE PHYSIQUE EXPÉRIMENTALE A L'UNIVERSITÉ DE LIÈGE") returned 403 to script; not tried in Chrome.

persee.fr - partial

• P. De Heen, "Introduction à l'étude de la physique. La théorie des électrons et la théorie substantialiste", Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique, 1912: https://www.persee.fr/doc/marb_0365-0952_1912_num_4_1_3752. Google snippet: "... Le Bon. Or, ce physicien ainsi que plusieurs autres ont constaté que si l'on ...". Page text not exposed (856 characters in Chrome); PDF refused to script (403). Not read.
• Benoît Marpeau, "Gustave Le Bon et les universitaires. Fragments de correspondances", Mil neuf cent 16 (1998), 145-182: https://www.persee.fr/doc/mcm_1146-1225_1998_num_16_1_1189 (fetched; only the opening is in the HTML). Opening: the received picture that "l'Université a rejeté l'homme et ses écrits" (Sternhell; Moscovici: "Les portes de l'Université et même celles de l'Académie des sciences lui restèrent obstinément closes") is the view Marpeau sets out to revise using correspondence. Google snippet shows a letter of Le Bon to Georges Renard, 23 Feb 1909, and the phrase "énergie intra-atomique" (p.753 of a cited work). Bearing: claim 5 (how he was received). Full text not read.
• Persée also lists the Académie royale de Belgique membership lists (1893), not checked for Le Bon's election date.

link.springer.com - partial

"Gustave Le Bon", chapter pp.215-233 of La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré et les physiciens, chimistes et ingénieurs (Publications des Archives Henri-Poincaré, Birkhäuser 2007): https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-7643-8303-9_35. Abstract only (rest paywalled): "Le Bon entreprend, à partir de 1896, des expériences de physique, sans avoir reçu une formation dans ce domaine. Pendant dix ans, Le Bon s'intéresse, avec l'aide d'un assistant, aux phénomènes de rayonnement, menant des expériences dans son laboratoire privé, mais aussi dans des laboratoires industriels, et dans le laboratoire de Bouty à la Sorbonne. En tant qu'amateur, Le Bon s'intègre mal dans la communauté physique française ..., comme l'observe Mary-Jo Nye (1974)." A Google snippet of the PDF adds: "Sur une quinzaine de notes publiées par Le Bon entre 1896 et 1906, Poincaré en présente quatre". Bearing: where the experiments were done (Paris: private laboratory, industrial laboratories, Bouty's Sorbonne laboratory), which bears on the review's "Belgian laboratory".

en.wikisource.org - partial

Popular Science Monthly 49 (May 1896), "Recent Work on X Rays": https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_49/May_1896/Recent_Work_on_X_Rays. Quotes Le Bon in the Revue scientifique: "These experiments ... show us that the degree of thickness of the opaque plates is absolutely without importance in the passage of the 'lumière noire.' They also indicate that the 'lumière noire' is propagated under other laws than those which govern ordinary light." Same page reports de Heen (Liège) on the X-ray source (anode). Bearing: claim 4/5 contemporary reception in the US. fr.wikisource also has the Comptes rendus 1902 tables (snippet: "Gustave Le Bon adresse une Note intitulée : 'Action dissociante des ...'"), not opened.

fr.wikipedia.org - negative

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon fetched by script: no occurrence of "noire", "intra-atomique", "Einstein", "Heen", "Nye" or "Moatti" in the extracted text. (en.wikipedia, per a Google snippet, says he was "nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903"; not opened.)

babel.hathitrust.org - negative

Full-text phrase search "Girard Le Beau": 18 hits, all unrelated (a theatre memoir by Louis Verneuil, Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 1930, Lyon-horticole 1888, Canadian French books in print 1999). A second search, "Evolution of Matter and Energy", was blocked by the browser extension ("Could not verify this site's safety category").

openlibrary.org - negative

search.json "evolution of matter and energy": only M. Taube (1985) and J. Carter (2019). Author "Le Beau" + "matter": 0 hits.

nobelprize.org - partial (not reached in time)

Google snippet: "Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics. Year: 1903. Number: 18 - 0. Nominee: Name: Gustave Le Bon. ... Country: FRANCE (FR)." The nominator's name was not reached before the time limit (a script fetch used the wrong id). Next run: open the nomination record (Physics 1903, no. 18-0) for the nominator and motivation. The Poincaré Papers calendar snippet "I have the honor to propose for the Nobel Prize in Physics" may belong to a different Poincaré nomination; check.