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fields G. W. Lennox, W. B. Long, J. C. Marshman, and A. Sicanzy, 

 Esqrs., were elected Fellows, 



Donations. — Among the principal donations received since the 

 last Meeting, were Plans and Sections, published by the War 

 Department; 'Percement de I'lsthme de Suez, etc.,' by M. F. de 

 Lesseps; and the Journals of the Scientific Bodies of France, 

 Prussia, the United States, and Canada. 



Exhibitions.— Lieut. W. Chimmo, r.n., f.r.g.s., exhibited certain 

 relics connected with the search for the North Australian Expedi- 

 tion under Mr. Gregory, found on the coast of the Gulf of Carpen- 

 taria and on the banks of the Victoria Eiver, and referred to in his 

 Paper in the ' Proceedings.' 



Announcements. — 1. The President said that a letter had been 

 just received from Captain Richard Burton, announcing his arrival 

 at Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa, and his intention to pro- 

 ceed, as speedily as possible, for the interior, in search of the Great 

 Lake. 



2. The Twenty-sixth Volume of the * Journal,' and the Seventh 

 Number of the ' Proceedings ' of the Society, were next announced 

 as having been published that day. 



3. It was then announced that a letter had been received from 

 the Earl of Shelbume, enclosing, by direction of the Earl of 

 Clarendon, a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at 

 Lisbon, stating that the Viscount de Sa da Bandeira had, by order 

 of the King of Portugal, transmitted the vote of thanks, passed at 

 the Special Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on the 15th 

 of December, to the Portuguese Authorities of East and West Africa, 

 for their kind reception of the intrepid Dr. Livingston. 



Address hy Sir Roderick Murchison on Opening the Meetirig of the 

 Royal Geographical Society, March 9, 1857. 



Gentlemen, — An attachment resulting from and cemented hy an intercourse 

 of nearly thirty years' duration would naturally have led me at our last meet- 

 ing to express to you my grief upon the occasion of the decease of my valued 

 friend the Earl of Ellesmere ; but the grave had not then closed over his 

 remains. 



Now, that the sad ceremony has been performed, in the presence of many 

 a true mourner and amid the wail of a devoted tenantry, I cannot allow this 

 the first opportunity presented to me to pass, without giving utterance to the 

 feelings of sincere sorrow which I experience, in common, I am sure, with all 

 members of the Royal Geographical Society, upon the loss of such a man. 



Of him, I may well say that his whole career was as honourable to himself 

 as it was useful to his country ; for his knowledge of our pursuits was one 

 only of the many accomplishments in science, letters, and arts, which his 



