The copy reads as follows: 

On July 3d, 1886, I visited Professor W. Scheibner, at his rooms, in
Leipsic, and obtained from him the following information concerning
Professor Zoellner’s Spiritistic experiments with Dr. Henry Slade, the
American Medium: 

1.  Professor Scheibner thinks that he was present at three or four of the regular seances with Slade.  Slade came to Professor Zoellner’s rooms; they sat around a table for perhaps half an hour, and then, after the seance was over, they spent an hour or two sitting informally in the same room, or in the next room, and talking.  During these informal conversations surprising things would occur.  Raps would now and then be heard, and objects would unexpectedly be thrown about the room.  In these conversations Professor Scheibner was present perhaps five or six times.  Some of these took place during the day, and some in the evening.

2.  Professor Scheibner said that each single thing that he saw might possibly have been jugglery, “although he perceived nothing that raised a direct suspicion.”

The whole number of incidents taken together, however, surprised him, and seemed scarcely explicable as jugglery, for there did not seem to be the necessary time or means for preparing so many tricks, “which often connected themselves surprisingly with desires casually expressed in momentary conversations.”

Professor Scheibner said, however, that he did not regard himself as competent to form an opinion which should have scientific weight, because: 

(a) He knows nothing about jugglery;

(b) He was merely a passive spectator, and could not, properly speaking, make observations—­could not suggest conditions, “or gain the control which seemed necessary;” and

(c) He is short-sighted, “and might easily have left unnoticed something essential.”

He says merely, that to him, subjectively, jugglery did not seem a good “or sufficient” explanation of the phenomena.

3.  Professor Scheibner said that he had never seen anything of the kind before.  He had never even, since his childhood, seen any exhibitions of jugglery; he does not go to see such things, because he is so short-sighted that if he went he would see nothing.  In this connection he repeated his statement that from this, among other causes, he did not regard himself as competent to give an opinion.  He said that many persons in Germany had demanded his opinion, but that he had refused it because he regarded his subjective impression, without objective proofs, as scientifically valueless.

4.  Professor Scheibner said that he did not believe in these things before.  He came to the seances because Professor Zoellner was a personal friend.  He has seen very little of the sort since.