The few additions which were made when it was read, appear as foot notes.  The report was approved as excellent.

(A Record from the notes of the Stenographer—­Mr. J.I.  Gilbert.)

PHILADA., November 6th, 1884.

The Committee reconvened this day, at 8 o’clock P.M., at the residence of Mr. H.H.  Furness, when the investigation of the Spirit Rappings, in the presence of Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane as Medium, was resumed.

The persons present were the following: 

Of the Committee—­Dr. Leidy, Mr. Furness, Dr. Koenig, Mr. Fullerton, Mr.
Coleman Sellers, and by invitation of the Committee, Mr. Geo. S. Pepper.

The Medium—­Mrs. Kane.

The Stenographer—­Mr. Gilbert.

The company promptly repaired to the dining-room, and there gathered around a common pine-wood table, consisting solely of its supports and top, which had been specially provided, in compliance with the direction of the Medium.  The dimensions of the table, approximately stated, are as follows:  height, three feet; length, four feet; width, two and a-half feet.

The ‘Spirit Rappings’ during the evening, aside from those heard during the test with the glass tumblers, were apparently confined to the floor-space in the immediate vicinity of, and directly beneath the table described—­around which the company were seated in the order here stated.  Mr. Sellers (to whom had been deputed the duty of eliciting the responses) occupied the chair at the end of the table more remote from the Stenographer.  Next, upon Mr. Sellers’ right and at the side of the table, sat Mr. Pepper, and Mr. Furness in the adjoining seat.  The first chair on the side of the table to the left of Mr. Sellers was occupied by the Medium, and the remaining chair on the same side by Mr. Fullerton.  At the near end of the table, Dr. Leidy and Dr. Koenig were seated.  The Committee, with one exception, in accordance with a requirement imposed by the Medium, rested their hands upon the table and fixed their minds upon the subject of the rappings.  The exception was Dr. Koenig, who, being seated at a distance of three feet from the table, could not conveniently comply with the requirement.  After the expiration of some twenty minutes, the Medium requested Dr. Koenig to place his hands upon the table, and he promptly complied with the request and moved his chair closer to that of Dr. Leidy, thus depriving himself of any facilities of observation of the space beneath the table.

The Stenographer was at a table about four feet from the circle of the
Committee.

The lengths of the intervals between the questions addressed to the Spirits and the responses thereto, were computed by the audible second-strokes of a clock in an adjoining apartment; the periods of waiting being necessarily brief in view of the assurance of the Medium (as set forth in its proper place in the Report) that “When the raps come, they come right away.”