344 HIMALAYA AND MOUNT EVEREST. [May 11, 1857. 



Twelfth Meeting, May ll^A, 1857. 



Sir KODEKICK I. MURCHISON, President, in the Chair. 



Elections. — Major the Hon, Wenman Coke ; Lord Dufferin ; Commander 

 C. Rundel Egerton, r.n. ; Sir A. H. Elton, Bart., m.p. ; Captain M, S. 

 Nolloth, R.N. ; Viscount St. Vincent ; and J, Bartholomew, jun. ; li. C. 

 Marsden ; Arthur Mills ; L. R. Meid ; John Boss ; and J. W. Willcock, 

 Q.C., Esqrs.t were elected Fellows. 



Donations. — The following were among the donations to the 

 Library and Map-Eooms received since the former meeting: — A 

 Chart, framed, showing the intended telegraph communication 

 between Newfoundland and Ireland, &c., presented by Mr. Brook- 

 ing, F.R.G.s, ; Maps of Moldavia and Bessarabia, by Consul Gardner^ 

 of Jassy; the Transactions of the Lombardo-Veneto Institute of 

 Milan ; of the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna ; and the 

 Academy of Sciences, Paris; Barth's Travels in Central Africa; 

 Lessep's Isthmus of Suez, &c. 



Exhibitions. — Among the articles exhibited were Eeeder's Patent 

 Mariner's Compass ; Sheets of the original drawings of some of the 

 Admiralty Surveys during the past season of Sheephaven, Mulray, 

 Donegal, Dingle, and Ventry Harbours, and the Frith of Forth, by 

 Captain Bedford, f.r.g.s., Mr. M'Dougal, and Lieutenant Thomas, 

 R.N. ; Map of the World, on the Homalographic Projection of the 

 Sphere, by J. Babinet ; with Maps of the Crimea and other places, 

 engraved on a new principle on stone, by Erhard, and published by 

 E. Bourdin, of Paris. 



Announcements. — The President informed the Meeting of the 

 departure of the Niger expedition under Dr. Baikie, f.r.g.s. ; and 

 stated that the report in circulation of the death of the enterprising 

 and intrepid African traveller, Mr. C. J. Andersson, was happily 

 without foundation. He was sorry, however, to add that another 

 Swedish traveller. Dr. Wahlberg, had perished in an encounter with 

 an elephant to the northward of Lake Ngami. A letter from Mr. 

 K. L. Sutherland, f.r.g.s., was then read, suggesting the advisability 

 of a Naturalist being on board the ' Agamemnon ' in sounding the 

 Atlantic and laying down the Telegraph cable. The Chairman next 

 mentioned that, owing to the inadequacy of the Meeting Room to 

 accommodate the rapidly increasing numbers of Fellows and Visitors 

 who — as he was glad to see — were in the habit of attending, a 

 Eesolution had been passed at the Council that day, that he should 

 represent the case to the President of the Council-Board of Educa- 



