208 DE CRESPIGNY.— KANE. [Nov. 24, 1856. 



The President said Mr. Crawfurd had given a very interesting and instruc- 

 tive description of the country which Lieut. De Crespigny was about to 

 explore. He was sure all would join with Mr. Crawfurd in his hearty wishes 

 for his success. The Council of the Society had expressed its desire that day 

 that the Admiralty should be moved to grant Mr. De Crespigny's re- 

 quest. They could only hope that the Government would promote his views 

 in every way, as he was sure the Society, judging from the expression of the 

 sentiments of those present, w^ould be disposed to do. Before the President 

 adjourned, he directed the attention of the Meeting to an application of one of 

 the many valuable productions of Borneo, in the shape of the gutta percha 

 forming part of the submarine cable about to be stretched between this country 

 and America ; and adverted to the admirable section upon the walls of the 

 room, of that part of the Atlantic in which the cable would lie, as delineated by 

 Mr. Cyrus Field, from the survey of Lieutenant Berryman, of the U.S. Navy. 



Second Meeting, Nov. 24, 1866. 



Sib EODERICK I. MURCHISON, Yice-Peesident, in the Chair. 



Elections. — Captain E. A. Acheson ; Br. Phil. H. Barth; Lieutenant 

 L. Brine, e.n. ; Captain W. Brook ; Captain E. Cooper ; and Messrs. J. W. 

 Childers ; J. A. Beaumont ; J. D. C. Ewing ; G. M. Harrison; A. B. Hill; 

 J. R. Langler ; J. Palliser ; H. S. Reid; J. M. Share, r.n. ; E. H. Stanley ; 

 J. L. Statham; and James Vaughan, m.d., were elected Fellows. 



Donations. — Among donations received since the previous meeting 

 were ' Le Moniteur des Indes, Orientales et Occidentales,' 3 vols. 

 4to., presented by Mr. J. Crawfurd, f.r.g.s. ; Eedhouse's ' English 

 and Turkish Dictionary,' presented by Mr. Quaritch ; * Treasury of 

 Geography,' by Mr. Wm. Hughes, f.r.g.s. ; ' Series of Twelve Views 

 in the ^Black Sea and the Bosphorus,' by Commander Montagu 

 O'Reilly, b.n., f.r.g.s. ; Reports of Explorations and Surveys in the 

 United States; the Transactions of the Smithsonian Institution of 

 Washington, of the Boston Society of Natural History, the German 

 Oriental Society, the Imperial Geological Society of Vienna ; the 

 Royal Institute of Dutch India, &c. 



Objects exhibited. — Various articles, relics of Sir John Frank- 

 lin's expedition, obtained from the Esquimaux at Repulse Bay by Dr. 

 Rae ; and others, sent home by Mr. Anderson, from Montreal Island, 

 were exhibited through the kindness of Mr. Tonna, f.r.g.s., Secre- 

 tary of the United Service Institution, and excited much interest. 



Announcements. — The Chairman stated that the members would be aware 

 that, at their last meeting, a resolution was unanimously passed, to express 

 their deep regret that their distinguished medallist, Ur. Kane, was prevented by 



