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and Messrs. Daniel Brown ; Samuel Brown ; A. Henderson ; P. C. 

 Lovet; A. Macgregor ; and W. R. O^ Byrne; C apt. John Shepherd, 

 R.N. ; Sir J. P. Kay Shuttleworth, Bart. ; Messrs. K. L. Sutherland, 

 R.N. ; G. C. Taylor ; and Lieut.- Colonel F. E. Wilmot, r.a., ivere 

 elected Fellows. 



Messrs. J. B. Heath ; Arthur Hodgson, of Australia ; W. H. Hovell, 

 of Australia ; W. P. Andrew ; Capt. Cole ; Messrs. J. Entwisle and 

 G. K. Fairholme ; Colonel the Hon. A. H. Gordon, c.b. ; Sir Charles 

 Nicolson, of Sydney ; Commander Montagu O'Reilly, r.n. ; and Mr. 

 William Staniland, were proposed as candidates for election at the 

 opening meeting of the next session. 



An ancient Atlas and Portulan of Spain were exhibited by Sir 

 Thomas Phillips, f.r.g.s. ; also the new edition of Baily's Map of 

 Central America, by Mr. Stanford, f.r.g.s. 



The Papers read were — 

 1. Journey of Joachim Rodriguez Graga to the Muata ya Nvo. By 



W. D. CoOLEY, Esq., F.R.G.S. 



Mr. Cooley endeavours to establish the position of the Muropue's 

 (Muata ya Nvo) capital, and he collates the itinerary of Graga, who 

 travelled in 1843, with those of Lacerda, Texeira, and the Pombeiros, 

 or native travelling merchants. Finally, he examines critically into the 

 information collected by Dr. Livingston about the courses of the seve- 

 ral rivers which he crossed, and disagrees widely from him.* He 

 places the capital of the Muropue at about 8° S. lat. and 22° E. long. 



2. Letter from Dr. Livingston, with a Sketch Map. 



This letter was dated Cabango, Lunda country. May 17, 1855. Its 

 object was to make certain corrections in his first map of the country 

 adjacent to the Quango, through which he had passed in very cloudy 

 weather on his outward journey, which corrections of Dr. Livingston 

 had all been attended to by Mr. Arrowsmith in engraving the map 

 which accompanies his paper in the lately-issued volume of the Royal 

 Geographical Society's Journal, and it is, therefore, unnecessary to 

 notice them at length. 



In reference to these papers Mr. Macqueen pointed out that the subject 

 of them was the same as that of the latter part of his paper of De- 

 cember 10, 1855, which was only partially read to the Society, but in 

 which he had arrived at very different conclusions from Mr. Cooley. He 

 had consulted everything he could find upon the subject, including the autho- 



* At the time of writing his Paper, Mr. Cooley had not seen Dr. Livingston's 

 last communication. — Ed. 



