Dr. Leidy:  It should be borne in mind that that throw was not from under the table, because when the pencil went over, the slate appeared on the outside of the table.  I sat near the Medium and saw that slate brought out as the pencil went up.

Professor Thompson:  The Medium claimed that sometimes the pencil appeared on the side of the table opposite to that at which he was sitting, but no such thing occurred in our presence.  Would not it be advisable, when you say it was thrown up, to add that it was thrown from the side at which the Medium was sitting?

Mr. Sellers:  In each and every case.

Dr. Leidy (to Mr. Sellers):  When the Medium gave you and me a slate to hold, he said the Spirits would make a communication.  We held the slate away from him and there was not at any time a communication.

(Mr. Sellers here resumed, from his notes):  The same experiment of jerking the pencil over the table was repeated with another pencil.  Then, at the suggestion of one of the gentlemen present, the Medium repeated the experiment made at a former session, in which a long line was drawn on the slate while the slate was apparently held without any motion.  The Medium then took one of the slates in his hand and placed it below the table, when it was suddenly broken.  As he produced it, he called attention to the fact that the slate seemed as if broken from the top downwards.  As he brought it out, the Medium turned the slate over and knocked it on his knee, and in that way crushed it to pieces.  He then turned it over to show on which side the crushing took place.  I saw that as plainly as I saw anything.  He then used a pencil and drew a zig-zag line across the slate.  The pencil was worn at one end.  The same experiment, which was made when Professor Fullerton was present, was repeated, and it was noticed that the pencil used in drawing the line was the identical one found on the slate.

Dr. Leidy:  In that part of the exhibition which purported to show how, through Spiritual influence, a slate pencil might remain in contact with a slate, the Medium took care not to elevate the slate to an angle of forty-five degrees.  He merely raised it to the elevation which I now indicate.  If he had elevated it a little more the pencil would have fallen off.

Mr. Sellers (resuming):  An accordion was then played under the manipulations of the Medium, after which that gentleman told the writer that he might look under the table and witness the performance of the instrument.  The writer availed himself of this permission, but, upon his looking below the table, the musical sound ceased, and no such sounds were heard during the period in which these observations were continued.  The Medium remarked, “That is unaccountable; there is no reason why you should not see it.”  Nevertheless, the accordion did not produce any sound while the writer was looking at it.

Professor Thompson:  There is one point which was suggested at an earlier stage of the minutes, and which is, perhaps, worthy of being recorded.  It is this.  At the time at which the slate was passed to the hand of Mr. Sellers, under the table, the Medium compelled me to sit around in a position different from that which I had occupied, in order that, in his operations, he could move his arms and lower extremities as freely as he pleased.