PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 ' OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1859-60. 



First Meeting, Monday ^ November 14th, 1859. 



Sir RODEEICK I. MUECHISON, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Elections. — Professor Otto Struve, of the Imperial Observatory of 

 Pulkowa, St. Petersburg, as a Corresponding Member ; and Sir Edward 

 Borough, Bart, ; the Rev. Charles OaUey, m.a. ; Lcrrd Henry Scott ; and 

 Henry Duckworth ; George Gammie ; Charles Marett, and Francis Tagart, 

 Esqrs., were elected Fellows. 



Accessions. — The accessions to the Library and Map Eooms since 

 the former Meeting were numerous, and the following were among 

 the more important : — Alberdi's Organizacion de la Confederacion 

 Argentina; Schrenck's Eeisen und Forschungen im Amiir-Lande, 

 1854-56 ; Beitrage zur Kenntniss des Eussischen Eeiches (vols. 7, 

 9, and 19) ; Eeisen in Central Afrika von Mungo Park bis auf 

 Drs. Earth und Vogel (vol. 1) ; Crowther and Taylor's Niger Ex- 

 pedition, 1857-59 ; Hall's Manual of South African Geography ; 

 Eeport of the Geological Survey of Canada ; Long's Early Geography 

 of Western Europe ; Kupffer's Annales de I'Observatoire Physique 

 Centrale de Eussie ; and the Transactions of Geographical and 

 Scientific Societies at home and abroad. Maps and Charts of the 

 Zambesi, Shire, and Lake Shirwa, from Dr. Livingstone; 1331 

 Ordnance Maps, 76 Admiralty Charts ; Warren's Map of the United 

 States, from the Mississippi to the Pacific ; Palmer's Map of the 

 Island of St. Helena ; Sprent's Map of Tasmania ; Government Maps 

 of Sardinia, Papal States, Algeria, Belgium; Views and Maps of 

 the Seat of War in Italy ; Papon's Hohen-Schichte Karte von Central 

 Europa ; Keith Johnston's Eoyal Atlas, and Blackie's Imperial Atlas, 

 in continuation, &c. 



Exhibitions. — The Model of the Schooner Fox, and the ' Eecord ' 

 of the Franklin Expedition, with the case in which it was enclosed, 

 found by Commander Hobson, on King William Island, were ex- 

 hibited. 



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