Lecture on Niffer.

To hear a man who has travelled and lived in the Orient, is a rare opportunity in Cambridge; to hear one who has spent two winters there digging for remains of one of the oldest civilizations is rarer still. We may tonight expect from Dr. Peters an account of his heroic and successful struggle against many odds, and of the valuable discoveries which he made in the temple of Bel at Niffer. His success in raising a large sum of money for the expedition, in overcoming diplomatic and other difficulties, and in securing for America a large portion of the clay books dug by him from a Babylonian building which has been a ruin for thousands of years, entitles him to eminent recognition. The hall in Jefferson Laboratory ought to be crowded this evening. The lecture begins at half past seven o'clock.