480 PRESENTATIONS, &c. [June 8, 1857. 



produced by the retirement of Lord Colcliester, Sir Charles Fellows, 

 Bear- Admiral FitzEoy, William J. Hamilton, Esq., the Earl of Har- 

 rowby, Colonel J. E. Portlock, and the Earl of Sheffield, to be filled 

 by Lord Broughton, Captain CoUinson, r,n., John Crawfurd, Esq., 

 H. Raper, Esq., r.n., Colonel Sir H. Rawlinson, and Major-General 

 Sabine, r.a. 



The Thanks of the Meeting having been voted to the President, 

 Vice-Presidents, Members of the Council, Auditors, and Scrutineers, 

 the President finally directed the attention of the Meeting to the 

 usual Anniversary Dinner, and the Meeting adjourned at half-past 



3 P.M. 



Fourteenth Meeting^ June Sth^ 1857. 

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



Presentations. — Major-General A. Alexander, Mr. W, H. Hovell, and 

 Mr. R. Sweeting, were presented on their election. 



Elections. — Commander R. D. Aldrich, r.n. ; Rev. G. R. Gleig ; Capt. 

 F. Hughes, Madras Cavalry ; Colonel the Hon. J. Lindsay ; Capt. A. P. 

 Ryder, r.n. ; Capt. Allen Young ; and Messrs. A . C. Blackstone ; Cornwallis 

 R. Cartwright ; John Dobie, Surgeon, r.n. ; Edward John Eyre, JJeut.- 

 Governor of St. Vincent'' s ; Samuel Gurney, m.p. ; Abel Smith ; Horace 

 Smith ; Philip Smith ; and Henry White, were elected Fellows. 



Donations. — The following were among the donations to the 

 Library and Map-Rooms received since the previous meeting : — ' Maps 

 of the Crimea, Erzrum, Khiva, &c.,' published by the Topographical 

 and Statistical Depot of the War Department ; eight sheets of the 

 Admiralty charts of the Delta of the Danube ; Sir John Davis' 

 'China;' The Transactions of the Franklin Institute of Phila- 

 delphia ; of the Academy of Sciences of Paris ; of the Zurich Na- 

 tural History Society, &c. 



Exhibitions.— Among the articles exhibited were fragments of 

 ancient pottery found on Serpent Island by Capt. Spratt, r.n. ; an 

 original plan of Alexandria, by Capt. Mansell, r.n. ; and maps of 

 St. Miguel and Caledonia Bays, &c., by Mr. Lionel Gisborne, 



F.R.G.S. 



Announcements. — The President announced the return of Dr. 

 Elsey, F.R.G.S., the surgeon of the North Australian Expedition ; of 

 Mr. A. W. Twyford, recently attached to the Egyptian Nile Expe- 

 dition ; and also of Sir Robert Schomburgk, f.r.g.s., from the Con- 

 sulate of Samana, in St. Domingo, en route to that of Siam. 



