The special claims of this field upon the American Missionary Association are obvious. Equatorial Africa is not a new and untried field to it. The Mendi Mission was organized by the Amistad Committee thirty-seven years ago, and was transferred to the care of the Association in 1846. We are not unfamiliar with the discouragements or the hopeful aspects of the work. We ought to have learned something by so long experience. It is by no means proposed to divert strength from the old mission, which has never, perhaps, been in more promising condition, to a new field. Rather it would be our hope, if the Lord should lay this work upon us, that these eastern and western fields, balancing each other across the dark continent, would more than double the interest of those who work through us in the evangelization of Africa. The negro race has always been our prominent and peculiar charge. That the people of this district have been degraded more by the slave trade than by their native heathenism, makes their claim on us the less possible to resist. And the fact that the missionary spirit among the students in our Southern colleges will soon demand room in which to expend itself in self-denying labor, forbids that we should refuse such an offer without careful and prayerful consideration. We, therefore, advise that an appeal be made for $35,000, which, with the $15,000 offered by Mr. Arthington, will amount to $50,000, as a fund for the establishment of a mission in the Nile basin, to be called “The Arthington Mission,” in remembrance of the beneficent donor, who, under God, has by his liberality already made it possible for the great missionary societies to establish Central African missions. The Committee hope that the Lord may incline some one or more of the friends of African missions, whom He has blessed with wealth, to put into our hands the larger part of the sum required for this undertaking, and that the Association may receive, say $30,000, from one, two or three contributors, which will still leave room for the many who may desire by smaller gifts to have a part in the enterprise. We further suggest that a force of not less than ten missionaries would be required to enter upon this work; that of this number, eight should, if possible, be of African descent, and that correspondence should be entered into with a view to their wise selection at such time as sufficient funds shall be subscribed to warrant a beginning of the undertaking. Also, that estimates be obtained respecting the dimensions and cost of a suitable steamer to serve the purposes of the mission. We recommend further that this report be printed in the April number of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, and thus submitted to the prayerful consideration of the friends of the African race, and that the Executive Committee await their decision as it shall be indicated in their response, trusting in it to read the full disclosure of the Master’s will, and purposing to be wholly guided thereby.