orge Bancroft, Hon. Luther Bradish, Hon. Judge Clerke, Hon.
George Opdyke, and other prominent citizens.

At the conclusion of the course, the following resolution,
presented by the Rev. Dr. Prime, was passed unanimously:

'_Resolved_, That this audience has listened with
great satisfaction, instruction, and delight, to the
valuable and highly entertaining lectures of Dr.
MACGOWAN on Japan, and that our thanks are
eminently due to him for imparting to us in so attractive
a form the results of his extensive travel, illustrated
with curious and elegant works of nature and art from
that remarkable empire.'

'On commencing his course of lectures in the Cooper
Institute, Dr. MACGOWAN was introduced by the
Hon. Judge Daly, who appeared as the representative of
the Geographical and Statistical Society. Judge Daly said
that 'the lecturer came before his countrymen with a
well-earned European reputation, that his investigations
had attracted much attention abroad, and in the matter
of physical geography his researches were referred to
in Humboldt's _Cosmos_, and his discovery and
description of the egre or bore of the Tsien-tang River
in China, occupies a large space in Maury's '_Physical
Geography of the Sea_.'' Besides giving the Society's
cordial commendation of Dr. MACGOWAN'S Lectures,
the Judge expressed on the part of the Society, a deep
sense of the importance in a national point of view of
the lecturer's projected exploration in the far
East.'-_Abridged Report_.

We could fill pages with such testimonials. We extract the
following from notices of Dr. MACGOWAN'S lectures in Europe:

'A large number of Members of Parliament, A. H. Layard,
Richard Cobden, John Bright, Sir M. Peto, T. B.
Horsfall, Lord Alfred Churchill, and others joined in
commending the lectures to Chambers of Commerce,
Colleges, Literary and Mechanics' Institutions; and
they were commended also to Young Men's Christian
Associations by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

'They were delivered in various parts of the United
Kingdom under the chairmanship of the Right Hon. the
E