Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism / In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert

by University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism

(Taken from notes made during the séance and immediately after.)

GEO. S. FULLERTON,

Secretary.

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The following advertisement was, in March, 1885, inserted in The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, of Chicago, The Banner of Light, in
Boston, and The Public Ledger, in Philadelphia:

"THE SEYBERT COMMISSION FOR INVESTIGATING MODERN SPIRITUALISM," of the University of Pennsylvania, hereby requests all Mediums for Independent Slate Writing, and no other at present, who are willing to submit their manifestations to the examination of this Commission, to communicate with the undersigned, stating terms, etc.

HORACE HOWARD FURNESS,

Acting Chairman,

Philadelphia, Pa.

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