PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1869-60. 

 Eighth Meeting, March 12th, 1860. 

 Sir EODEKIOK I. MTJRCHISON, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Presentations. — John Ball and James Bf-ight, m.d., Esqrs., were pre- 

 sented upon their Election. 



Elections. — Sir John W. JI. Anson, Bart. ; Professor Henry Attwell ; 

 the Rev. A. J. Carver, m.a, ; Lieut. -Colonel J. A. Dighy ; JJeut. the Hon. 

 F. Fitzmaurice, r.n. ; Captain M. Petrie, r.e. ; the Hon. F. Walpole ; J. E. 

 Anderdon ; C. J. Fox Bunbury ; William Coningham, m.p. ; /. B. Dasent ; 

 J. A. Dickenson ; W. H. T. Hushisson ; P. F. Jermyn ; Samuel Kinns, 

 PHIL. DR. ; William Smith, c.e. ; and William Stirling, m.p., Esqrs., were 

 Fellows. 



The Papers read were — 



1 . South Australia : Exploring Expedition into the Interior of the 

 Continent. By J. Macdougall Stuart. 



Communicated from the Colonial Office by the Duke of Newcastle, f.r.g.s. 



Sir E. Macdonnell reports in his despatch of July, 1859, that 

 Mr. Macdougall Stuart had just returned to Adelaide, having made 

 another very extensive exploratory trip, aided solely by private 

 means. His farthest point appears to have been about lat. 27° S., 

 long. 135° E., a distance of about 90 miles beyond Major Warburton's 

 farthest. The country improved as he proceeded, being formed of 

 alluvial soil, and diversified by numerous small hills, varying from 

 100 to 150 feet in height, from the summits of which copious 

 springs of clear water overflowed, while there was abundant and 

 excellent pasture in every direction. He describes the dip of the 

 country as being towards the north-west. 



The Chairman said the discoveries were important, and redounded to the 

 honour of the adventurous traveller, Mr. Macdougall Stuart, who had previously 

 discovered an extensive tract of country, and had now extended his explorations 

 still farther in a north-westerly direction. A former Governor of Australia, 



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