PEOOEEDINGS 



OP 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1858-9. 



Eighth Meeting, March 14th, 1859. 



Sir EODEKICK I. MURCHISON, President, in the Chair. 



Presentations. — Major A. C. Cooke, r.e. ; Captain A. Clarke, r.e. ; 

 t?te Rev. F. W. Tremlett ; A. L. Fisher, m.d. ; /. W. Ogle, m.d. ; and 

 H. W. Willoughhy, Esqrs., were presented upon their election. 



Elections. — Captain Henry Harris; Hohert Baikie, Esq., m.d. ; 

 H. Diedrich Jencken, Henry Loch, and Arthur B. Warre, Esqrs., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Exhibitions. — A large nugget of gold, and a model of the largest 

 found in Australia, were exhibited by Professor Tennant, f.r.g.s. 



Accessions. — Among the numerous accessions to the Library and 

 Map Eooms since the last Meeting were : — Page's La Plata ; Explora- 

 tions and Surveys for a Pailroad Eoute from the Mississippi to the 

 Pacific (vols. 5, 6, and 7) ; Hitchcock's Ichnology of New England ; 

 Cave's Algeria; Emory's United States and Mexican • Boundary 

 Survey ; Sir Macdonald Stephenson's Map of Turkey, showing the 

 railways ; Yan de Velde's Map of the Holy Land, &c. 



The Papers read were : — 



1. Explorations in South Australia. By Messrs. B abb age, Warburton, 

 Stuart, and others. 



Comnmnicated by the Eight Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., Her Majesty's 

 Secretary for the Colonies. 



The papers submitted to the Society contain the results of numerous 

 explorations made in Southern Australia during the season of 1858. 

 In order to obtain a general idea of their extent, it will be sufficient 

 to refer to a map inserted at page 194 in Vol. II. of the Proceedings, 

 which contains all that had been discovered up to the close of the 



VOL. III. 



