PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



^ SESSION 1868-9. 



Second Meeting, Monday, Nov. 22nd, 1858. 



Sir KODEKICK I. MUKCHISON, President, in the Chair. 



Presentations. — The Eight Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart., m.p., 

 First Lord of the Admiralty ; Edward Beldam ; Joseph Locke, m.p. ; and 

 Alderman W. A, Rose, Esqrs. ; were presented upon their election. 



Elections. — Lord Ashburton ; Sir Alexander Bannerman, Bart. ; Vis- 

 count Cranbourne ; Captain Chas.D. Cameron, H.M. Vice- Consul at Bedout 

 Kale ; Lord Skelmersdale ; Captain Hammel J. Strutt ; Captain the Hon. 

 Sudeley C. G. H. Tracy ; the Rev. Richard Leah, b.a. ; and James Barratt ; 

 John Botterill ; Francis W. Davis, R.N. ; John Donne ; Edward J. Hawker ; 

 David Kay; Joseph Mayer; James Pincott ; H. Birch Reynardson ; 

 J. Northcote Ryder ; and Theodosius Uzielli, Esqrs. ; were elected Fellows. 



Exhibitions. — A Chart of the Delta of the Danube, by Captain 

 Thos. A. B. Spratt, r.n. ; Views of Norfolk, the Fiji and other 

 Islands in the South Seas, by Captain Denham, of H.M.S. Herald ; 

 Chart of Shark Bay and Gascoyne Eiver, N.W. Australia, by F. T. 

 Gregory ; and Brion's Eelief Map of Brighton and its Environs ; were 

 exhibited to the Meeting. 



The Papers read were — 



1. Notes, Geographical and Commercial, made during the Passage of 

 H.M.S. Furious, in 1858, from Shanghai to the Gulf of Pecheli and 

 back. By Capt. Sherard Osborn, r.n,, c.b., f.r.g.s., &c. With 

 Sailing Directions by Mr. S. Court, r.n. 



Part I. 



Thanks to the obstinacy of the Chinese Government, which rejected 

 the advances made by the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and 

 France to bring about an amicable arrangement of existing differ- 

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