PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



'SESSION 1859-60. 



Twelfth Meeting (Anniversary), 1 p.m., May 28^A, 1860. 



The EAEL de GREY and RIPON, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been read and con- 

 firmed, the regulations respecting the Anniversary Meetings were 

 next read, when the President appointed William Bollaert and 

 John Hogg, Esqrs., Scrutineers for the Ballot. 



The Reverends R. Miles and J. J. Stewart Perowne ; Professor 

 Henry Darwin Rogers ; the Earl of Southesk ; and James Brown, 

 M.p. ; William Henry Cooke ; George Elliot, o.e. ; and Frederick 

 Haworth, Esqrs., were proposed as Candidates for election at the 

 next Meeting. 



The Report of the Council, with the Balance Sheet for 1859 and 

 the Estimate for 1860, was then read and adopted. 



The Charter and Regulations of the Society, as revised by the 

 Special Committee and submitted by the Council, were adopted. 



The President next delivered the Founder's Gold Medal to Sir 

 Roderick I. Murchison, on behalf of Lady Franklin, in commemo- 

 ration of the Arctic Researches of the late Sir John Franklin, and in 

 testimony of the fact tjiat this expedition was the first to discover 

 a North- West passage ; also in token of admiration for her per- 

 severance in sending out expeditions to ascertain the fate of her 

 husband and the ships under his command. 



The Patron's or Victoria Gold Medal was delivered to Captain 

 Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock, r.n., for the skill and fortitude displayed 

 by him and his companions — Hobson, Young, and Walker — in 

 their search for records of the lost expedition, and for their valu- 

 able coast surveys, by which our acquaintance with the Arctic 

 geography has been enlarged. 



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. 



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