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Seventh Ordinary Meeting, February 21th, 1860. 



The earl DE GEEY AND RIPON, President, in tlie Chair. 



Presentations. — Commander H, Carr Glyn, r.n. ; Colonels Stephen 

 John Hill and J. F. Dudley Crichton Stuart^ m.p. ; the Rev. T. Silver ; and A,. 

 Benson Dickson, C. H. C. Flowden, W. W.Seymour Smith, and F. Verheke, 

 Fsqrs., were presented upon their Election. 



Elections. — The Rev. J. C. Curry Fussell ; Captain Lawrence Hey- 

 worth ; the Rev, H. J. Ingilhy ; Major A. Burrowes Kemhall, c.b. (//. 

 M.'s Consul General, Bagdad) ; the Rev. T. W. Prichett ; Major Patrick 

 Stewart, Bengal Engineers ; the Rev. H. P. Wright ; and W. H. D. Archer, 

 G. Parker Bidder (^Pres. Inst. Civ. Eng.), Thomas A. Mariette, Daniel 

 Meinertzhagen, G. T. Murray, W. B. Phillimore, D. Brooke Robertson (//. 

 M.^s Consul at Canton), William Howard Russell, ll.d., /. Shaw Stewart, 

 and J. Palmer Stocker, Fsqrs., were elected Pillows. 



The Papers read were : — 



1. On South Africa. By C. J. Andersson, Esq. 



On the River Okovango, lat. 17° 30', long. 19'^, 

 (approximately), March 26th, 1859. 

 Four days ago, after vast exertions, I struck the river (I am not 

 quite sure the name is correct) from which I now date this hasty 

 scrawl. I have accidentally encountered a party of Mambari en 

 route for their homes in the vicinity of the kingdom of Benguela ; 

 and although the chances of these lines ever reaching you are very 

 remote, I do not like to let slip the opportunity of addressing you. 

 But it would be useless, under the circumstances, to enter fully 

 into details of my proceedings since I last wrote to you. I write 

 more for those who feel some interest in my poor self than otherwise. 

 Cunene I have not seen, and probably never shall, though I shall 

 certainly strive hard to accomplish my original object. But this 

 river seems now to afford as much interest (I firmly believe it to be 

 a branch of that prince of rivers, the Zambesi) as the Cunene, for 

 it is of most noble proportions, which you may judge of from the 

 fact of its being no less than 200 to 300 yards broad, apparently of 

 great depth, and with a stead}^ current flowing at the rate of 2^ to 

 3 miles per hour. But you will probably be surprised to learn that 

 its flow is eastward and not westward. What river can then this be 

 in such latitude and longitude ? Why, no doubt, the Chobe, or one 

 of its principal branches. Part of its waters of course finds its way 

 to Lake Ngami vi4 Tioughe, but it seems utterly impossible that 

 all this mighty flow of water should find an outlet solely through 



