But that noble man, who has long since gone to his reward, Dr. Gardner, did not let the matter drop at this point. No sooner was the "award" promulgated than he engaged his mediums to postpone their departure from the city, and, under like circumstances, in the same room, furniture unchanged, to repeat their sittings before a different set of investigators, namely, the _representatives of the Press_. A large body of these gentlemen attended, besides their friends and other spectators, and it is sufficient for me to say that the results were entirely satisfactory. But Dr. Gardner had requested that their reports should be withheld from publication until after the committee's full report should have appeared. In Mr. Allan Putnam's pamphlet above referred to ("Agassiz and Spiritualism"), is given an account of this convening of the members of the Press, by Dr. Gardner, written by the temporary editor of _The New England Spiritualist_, and signed "One Present," and commencing: "It is well known that the 'award' of the committee entirely failed to meet the rational demands of inquirers. It took the form of a decree rather than a decision. Such being the facts, Dr. Gardner thought it due, not only to himself but to the community, to make another effort to have the matter fairly and deliberately tested. Accordingly, immediately after the appearance of the committee's 'award,' he invited the editors of the principal newspapers in the city to attend the séances and witness manifestations through the same mediums he had employed before the professors. "The gentlemen who responded to this invitation were: Messrs. Carter, Robinson, and Brown, of _The Boston Traveller_; Stockwell, of _The Journal_; Bulger, of _The Post_; Clapp and Shillaber, of _The Gazette_; Marsh, of _The Bee_; Tracy, of _The Herald_; Hill, of _The Ledger_; and the editors of _The Banner of Light_, and _New England Spiritualist_. There were also present at a portion of the sittings, Hon. L. V. Bell, A. Putnam, Esq., Alvin Adams, Esq., and others." I extract only the following, which relates to ourselves: "SECOND SESSION. "At the second session, on Thursday afternoon, July 2d, Mrs. Brown and Miss Kate Fox were present as mediums. The precaution was taken again to examine the furniture and appliances of the room, to guard against any mechanical trickery. The company then seating themselves, raps were in a few moments heard upon the floor and table. The sounds were various and complicated, from the lightest tap to quite heavy blows. The heavier sounds had a peculiar softness, as if they had been made by a padded drum-stick worked by a spring. "The next step was to test the intelligence manifested through the sounds. The method of doing this will be understood from the following, which is but a small part of the proceedings--as a report of the whole would be but a repetition of questions similar in their character, and eliciting equivalent results.