PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1857. 

 Thirteenth Meeting (Anniversary), 1 p.m., May 25^A,*1857. 

 The President, Sir EODERICK I. MUROHISON, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The Eegulations respecting the Anniversary Meetings were next 

 read, when the President appointed William Bollaert and John 

 Brown, Esqrs., Scrutineers for the Ballot. 



The Report of the Council, with the Balance-sheet for 1856, and 

 the Estimate for 1857, was then read and adopted. 



The Prksident next delivered the Founder's Gold Medal to the 

 Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies, on behalf of Mr. Augustus C. Gregory, Commander of the 

 North Australian Expedition, for his explorations in Northern and 

 Western Australia. 



The Patron's Gold Medal, awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew 

 Scott Waugh, of the Bengal Engineers, Surveyor-General of India, 

 for his geodetical operations and triangulation of that country, was 

 delivered to Colonel George Everest, f.r.g.s., etc., for transmission 

 to Colonel Waugh.* 



The President then read his Anniversary Address, for which a 

 unanimous Vote of Thanks was passed, with a request that he would 

 allow it to be printed. 



The Ballot being concluded, the Scnitineers reported that the 

 changes advised by the Council had been adopted ; and thb Presi- 

 dent announced the two vacancies in the offices of Vice-Presidents, 

 occasioned by the deaths of Rear- Admiral F. W. Beech ey and the 

 Earl of Ellesmere, to be supplied by Colonel G. Everest and Sir 

 Walter C. Trevelyan ; the vacant Honorary Secretaryship to be filled 

 by Francis Galton, Esq. ; and those in the Ordinary Councillors 



* For these Awards and the President's Address see No. X. 



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