CONTENTS

NCAS Editor's Note: The published report has no table of contents. We provide one here for convenience. The titles provided for each section represent our best judgement as to the nature of that section. The entries in the Appendix that follow the introduction show the dates of Commission sessions (or other activities) and the names of the individuals (Mediums and others) involved.

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To the Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania  
  Introductory Statement 3
  Seances with Mrs. S. E. Patterson 5
  Seances with Dr. Henry Slade 7
  Difficulties Encountered 13
  An Experiment with Mrs. Patterson 16
  Conclusions Concerning Slate-Writing and Sprit-Rapping 19
  Other Mediums Observed by the Commission 22

APPENDIX  
  Preface to the Appendix by Mr. Fullerton 26
  March 13 & 19, 1884: Mrs. S. E. Patterson 27
  March 26, 1884: Mr. Fred Briggs 29
  April 8 and 17, and May 31, 1884: Mrs. S. E. Patterson 31
  November 5, 1884: Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane 33
  November 6, 1884: Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane 35
  November 7, 1884: Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane 48
 
  January 16, 1885: Mrs. S. E. Patterson 49
  January 21 - 28, 1885: Dr. Henry Slade 51
  February 13, 1885: Mr. Harry Kellar 77
  February 19 & 20, 1885: Mrs. Maud E. Lord 79
  May 27, 1885: Mr. Pierre L. O. A. Keeler 82
  December 29, 1885: Dr. Rothermel & Mr. Powell 87
  March, 1885: Newspaper Advertisement 90
  November 6 & 14, 1885: Mr. W. M. Keeler 91
 
  March 30, 1886: Mr. Fred Briggs 93
  April 11, 1886: Mrs. Best 95
 
  January 30,1887: Mrs. M. B. Thayer 96
  February 3,1887: Mrs. M. B. Thayer 98
  February 10,1887: Mrs. M. B. Thayer 99
  March 26,1887: Mrs. Wells 101
 
  March,1884 - April, 1887: Dr. Leidy's Observations 103
  Summer, 1886: The Slade-Zoellner Investigation, Prof. Fullerton 104
  1884, Various Dates: Dr. Knerr's Observations 115
  Dates Unspecified: Mediumship Development, Dr. Furness 124
  Dates Unspecified: Sealed Letters, Dr. Furness 128
  Dates Unspecified: Materialization, Dr. Furness 148
  INDEX 160




Copyright, 1887, by J. B. Lippincott Company