May 28, I860.] ADMIRALTY SURVEYS— ENGLAND. 145 



The climate of the North of Scotland proved too severe for a con- 

 stitution weakened by exposure for many years under a tropical 

 sun; his health gave way, and he rapidly sank on the 12th April 

 of the present year, at the early age of 47. In the Admiralty Charts 

 of Africa, America, and the North- West Coast of Scotland he has 

 left a name that will long be gratefully remembered by the mariner 

 who has to navigate those coasts. 



In addition to the above names, the Society has to regret the 

 loss of the Earl de Grey, the Eev. Temple Frere, Arthur Baily, 

 Joseph Bainbridge, George Frederick Dickson, George Eeelard 

 Griffith, W. H. Jones, and Charles Lewell, Es(jrs. 



GEOGRAPHICAL PROGRESS. 



In reviewing the progress of geography during the past year, 

 I have adopted the practice of my predecessors, and commenced 

 with an account of the Maritime Surveys of Great Britain; for 

 which, as usual, we are indebted to our energetic associate. Captain 

 J. Washington, the hydrographer to the Navy. 



f Admiralty Surveys. 



The Coast surveys in course of execution, under the orders of 

 the Admiralty, both at home and abroad, have made steady progress 

 during the past year. They are conducted, under the able direc- 

 tion of Captain Washington, by twenty different surveying parties, 

 one-half of which are employed on the coasts of the United King- 

 dom, the remainder in the colonies of Australia, Cape of Good 

 Hope, AYest Indies, Nova Scotia, St. Lawrence, and Vancouver 

 Island ; also on the coast of Syria, in the Turkish Archipelago, in 

 Banka Strait, China, and Japan. 



England. — On the east coast of England the work has been con- 

 fined to inserting in the charts the few topographical changes that 

 have occurred in the rivers Tyne, Humber, and in Yarmouth Eoads, 

 in the Orwell and Thames, and in Dover Eoad. In the Tyne the 

 changes have been caused by the opening of docks, owing to the 

 increase of traffic and to some most praiseworthy deepening of the 

 river by dredging by the Elver Commissioners, by which 400,000 

 tons of soil, and consequently of obstruction, have been removed from 

 |:he bed of ti^e ff ver during the past yisar : a wprk that capnot fail 



