PROCEEDINGS 



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THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



S:ESSI0N 1858-9. 



Fourth Meeting, January 10th, 1859. 



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



Presentations. — Francis Lyne and Charles Lewell, Esqrs., were pre- 

 sented upon their election. 



Elections. — Rev. William G. Clarke, m.a. ; Commander R. Boynton 

 Creyhe, R.N. ; Lieut. Henry Lamb, i.N. ; Sir H. Pollard Willoughhy, 

 JBart., M.P. ; Thomas H. Alsager, b.a. ; and Edward H. Bramah, James 

 Brand, William Brown, F. Solly Gosling, Valentine Lahrow, Donald 

 Larnach, Patrick Leslie, W. Drury Lowe, John Miland, Marc H. Pasteur, 

 and Charles Ratcliffe, Esqrs., were elected Fellows, 



Exhibitions. — Photographic and other views of the Termini and 

 the proposed Route for the Honduras Inter-Oceanic Railway ; and 

 specimens of silver and copper ore, &c., brought from Mexico by 

 Charles Sevin, Esq., f.r.g.s., were exhibited to the meeting. 



The Papers read were : — 



1. Notes on the Zambesi Expedition. From the Journal of Thomas 



Baines, Esq., f.r.g.s., Artist to the Expedition. 



Communicated by Dr. Livingstone, f,r.g.s. 



With Maps by Mr. Skene, b.n., and Mr, Thornton. 



The President read portions of a letter from Dr. Livingstone, in which he 

 described how he had navigated the lower portion of the Zambesi, the good 

 quality of the coal which had been obtained on its banks, the affectionate 

 reception he had met with from his old native adherents, the cordial assistance 

 of the Portuguese authorities, and the steady and vigorous support of the 

 different ofiScers of his Expedition, specially mentioning Mr. Thornton for 

 having constructed a good chart of a portion of the river. 



He also noted a peculiarity in this river, that where the ripple on the surface 

 was most intense, there the water was deepest. 



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