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tinue these duties beyond the ensuing Anniversary ; and if it were the pleasure 

 of the Society that he should occupy the office till that time, he would endea- 

 vour to support their interests now, as he had done formerly. 



Mr. W. J. Hamilton, f.b.g.s., said, as a member of the Council, having been 

 present when this subject, which was necessarily brought under their considera- 

 tion, was discussed, he had great pleasure in rising to state that it was the unani- 

 mous wish of the Council of the Koyal Geogi-aphical Society that Sir Eoderick 

 Murchison should undertake for the j^eriod he had mentioned, the duties which 

 had hitherto been performed by their late lamented President. He begged 

 leave, therefore, to propose that Sir Roderick Murchison do occupy the Chair of 

 the Society until the ensuing Anniversary. 



Colonel Sykes, f.r.g.s., said that, if he had been present at the Meeting of the 

 Council, he should have joined most readily in the proposition now submitted. 

 The Society was under a great obligation to Sir Roderick Murchison for con- 

 senting to undertake the office, which was no sinecure, requiring, as it did, no 

 ordinary ability, zeal, or leisure, to be carried out efficiently. He most heartily 

 seconded the proposition. 



Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, f.r.g.s., observed that, as the worthy Chairman 

 could not put the resolution himself, he begged to do so, and hoj^ed it would be 

 unanimously adopted, " that Sir Roderick Murchison do occupy the office of Pre- 

 sident until the next Anniversary." The resolution was carried unanimously. 



JDr. Livingston. — The Chairman then announced his regret at the 

 non-arrival of their expected guest, the celebrated explorer of Africa, 

 Dr. Ijivingston, owing to the breaking down of the Peninsular and 

 Oriental steamer, ' Candia,' after leaving Malta. He hoped, how- 

 ever, to have an opportunity very shortly of presenting him to the 

 Society. 



Arrival of the Resolute. — The expected arrival of the ' Eesolute,' 

 under the command of the American Arctic explorer, Captain Hart- 

 stene, as a present to her Majesty from the United States Government, 

 was then announced from the Chair, as having been communicated 

 that day by his Excellency the American Minister, Mr. Dallas. 



The papers read were : — 



1. On the Determination of the River " Eulaeus^' of tlie Greek Historians. 

 By William Kennett Loftus, Esq* 



Professor Long has remarked that the question as to the site of 

 Susa is inseparable from that of its rivers. General Williams 

 having made certain discoveries in the ruins of Shush, near Dizfiil, 

 in Western Persia, in the following year tbe sum of 500/. was 

 voted by Parliament, and, at the request of Colonel Rawlinson, 

 Mr. Loftus undertook the excavations. The remains of two ancient 

 palaces were uncovered. In the Journals of the Eoyal Geogra- 

 phical Society, the modern Kerkhah is correctly given as the 

 Choaspes, the river of Diz as the Coprales, and the Kuran as the 

 Pasitigris. Professor Long and Mr. Layard believe the Eulaeus to 

 be the Shapiir, but Mr. Loftus considers that there was a bifurcation 



