4 Voyage of the Novara. 



Hooker, Sir Charles Lyell, General Sabine, Admiral Smyth, 

 Admiral Fitzroy, Professor Robert Owen, Professor Philips, 

 Professor Bell, Professor W. A. Ramsay, Professor Goodsir, of 

 Edinburgh, W. J. Hamilton, Esq., Charles Darwin, Esq., 

 L. Horner, Esq., James Yates, Esq., B. Davis, Esq., &c., &c. 

 From the United States of North America, we received most 

 valuable communications from Commander M. F. Maury, 

 National Observatory, Washington, D.C. — Captain Rodgers, 

 and others. 



Letters of introduction were received from Germany, and 

 particularly from England, to influential parties and societies in 

 a variety of places abroad, amongst which were many warm 

 and friendly recommendations from the English Government 

 and Admiralty, as well as the Directors of the then East India 

 Company, to various administrative authorities in the British 

 Colonies. 



The frigate Novara was laid up in the arsenal of Pola, 

 where all requisite steps were taken to complete her outfit, and 



