PROCEEDINGS 



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THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDOK 



SESSION 1858-9. 



First Meeting y Monday, November Sth, 1858. 



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



Presentations. — General Duncan A. Cameron, r.e., c.b., and the 

 Right Hon, J. Stuart Wortley, Q.C., M.P., were presented upon their election. 



Elections. — The Hon, Francis Baring ; Arthur John Edward Russelly 

 M.p. ; Lieut, George Brine, R.N. ; Charles Davidson Bell, Surveyor-General 

 of the Cape of Good Hope ; Aubrey De Vere Beauclerk, George G, Gilbert- 

 Heard J J, G. Johnstone, Joseph Paul, and Theodore Walrond, Esqrs., were 

 elected Fellows, 



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

 the last meeting were important, comprising, among others, 936 

 Ordnance Maps; 81 Admiralty Charts; 40 French Charts; 78 

 Belgian Maps; 10 Swedish Maps; 38 Native Maps of China; Stan* 

 ford's large Map of Europe ; the Dispatch Atlas ; an account of the 

 Principal Triangulation for the Ordnance Survey; Eeport of the 

 Ordnance Survey Commission ; Villavicencio's Geografia de la Ee- 

 publica del Ecuador ; Leigh SotheBy's Principia Typographica ; 

 11 vols, of the *Memorie della E. Accademia Ercolanese' from the 

 Neapolitan Government ; Hydrographical Notices published by the 

 Admiralty and the Depot de la Marine ; the eighth edition of Maury's 

 Sailing Directions ; Meteorological Papers published by the Board of 

 Trade ; Astronomical Observations made at the Eadcliffe Observatory ; 

 the Transactions of various Geographical and Scientific Societies at 

 home and abroad, &c. 



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