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ADDRESS 



TO THE 



ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON; 



Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting on the 2Sth May, 1860, 

 By the Eakl de Grey and Kipon, 



PRESIDENT. 



Obituary. 



In accordance with our usual custom, I proceed to mention 

 tlie losses by death which the Society has sustained since the last 

 Anniversary. 



Colonel George Baker was one of the earliest associates of 

 our Society, having been connected with it since the year 1830 ; 

 and although, owing to the distance of his residence from London 

 he was seldom enabled to share in our proceedings, there was a 

 period in his earlier life when he distinguished himself by under- 

 taking and carrying through, under many difficulties, a geo- 

 graphical work of no trifling importance at the time, and of which 

 the value was highly appreciated, while it has never since been 

 impugned. 



As an officer of the 16th Light Dragoons, to which regiment he 

 had been from his youth attached, he bore his part, under the Duke 

 of Wellington, in the first operations of the Peninsular war ; and 

 although prevented from sharing in the triumphant conclusion of 

 them by falling into the hands of the French during a cavalry 

 skirmish after the battle of Salamanca, and being marched as a 

 prisoner to Verdun, he joined his regiment again after the peace of 

 1814, was engaged at Waterloo, and accompanied the army after- 

 wards to Paris. 



