More Bibles and religious books went into the hands of Mohammedans from the depository of the mission during the years 1854 and 1855, than in all the previous years of its existence.
Twenty thousand copies of the Bible were scattered through Turkey in that space of time.
The transfer of Dr.Riggs to the department of the Press made it necessary to suspend the Greek department in the Seminary at Bebek, and four of the six Greek pupils were sent to Dr.King at Athens.[1] Another became a teacher in Demirdesh, and another went to the United States to complete his professional studies.
[1] The author regrets being obliged to say, that these all disappointed the expectations of their benefactors.
Five Armenian students had been licensed to preach, and sent to Adrianople, Cesarea, Sivas, Diarbekir, and Kessab.

Another, having the ministry in prospect, was a teacher in the new training-school at Tocat, under Mr.Van Lennep.

A similar school existed at Aintab.
The accession of missionaries from 1855 to 1860 was as follows: In 1855, Orson P.Allen; in 1856, George A.Pollard, Tillman C.
Trowbridge, and Misses Mary E.Tenney and Sarah E.West; in 1857, Crosby H.Wheeler, Charles F.Morse, Oliver W.Winchester, Jackson G.Coffing, George H.White, and Julius Y.Leonard; in 1858, Theodore Byington, George Washburn, and William Hutchinson; and Herman N.Barnum, who, being at Constantinople as a traveller, made an offer of his services, which was accepted in this year; in 1859, William W.Meriam, Joseph K.Greene, James F.Clarke, George F.
Herrick, and Henry S.West, M.D., and Miss Myra A.Proctor; in 1860, Alvan B.Goodale, M.D., William F.Arms, Zenas Goss, William W.Livingston, and Lysander T.Burbank.Messrs.

Washburn, Trowbridge, Pettibone, Barnum, Herrick, and Goss came to the mission unmarried; Mr.Washburn afterwards married a daughter of Dr.Hamlin, Mr.Barnum a daughter of Dr.Goodell, and Mr.Trowbridge a daughter of Dr.Riggs.
Mr.Everett, a devoted servant of Christ, was called to his rest on the 5th of March, 1856, after a sickness of a few days.

His orphan children returned to the United States in charge of Miss Haynes, the sister of their mother.Messrs.Isaac G.Bliss and Edwin Goodell, in consequence of the failure of health, were released from their connection with the Board.