162 OLIPHANT'S NOTES OF A VOYAGE [March 28, 1859^ 



The banks of the river were found in some places to be honey- 

 combed with pitfalls for hippopotami and other animals. There 

 were large numbers and many varieties of birds, but only one kind 

 of fish, and that was a species of barbel, which occasionally attained 

 a great size. The natives caught them and sold them in bundles, 

 split, skewered open, and dried in the smoke. 



In adjourning the meeting, the President said that he must 

 remark that the communications made to this meeting, and the 

 observations which had been made on them, had given him as much 

 satisfaction as he had ever experienced on any former occasion since 

 he had occupied the chair. He then reminded the assembly that 

 he had directed cards to be sent to every Fellow of the Society, in- 

 viting them to soirees on the 16th and 30th of March; and that if 

 any Fellow had, through accident, not received the card, he hoped 

 that the omission would be overlooked. 



Ninth Meeting, March 2Sth, 1859. ' 



Sm EODEEICK I. MUKOHISON, President, in the Chair. ^ 



Presentations. — Captain L. S. Tindal, r.n. ; Captain H. Harris; 

 Captain John Walker ; H. D. Jencken ; David Kay ; and Thomas Phinn, 

 Q.C., Esqrs. ; were presented upon their election. 



Elections. — Colonel Henry F. Ainslie ; Lieut. -Colond A. Lam Fox; 

 the Rev. G. Crake Rowden ; L. P. Delves Broughton ; John H. Gurney, m.p. ; 

 C. H. Rogers Harrison ; and C. Orby Womhwell, Esqrs. ; were elected 

 Fellows. 



Exhibitions. — Several Chinese Maps and Drawings of the Yang- 

 tse-Keang, and a magnetic variation Chart of the World, by F. J. 

 Evans, Esq., r.n., f.r.g.s., were exhibited. 



The Papers read were : — ■ 

 1. Notes of a Voyage up the Yang-tse-Keang , from Wosung to Han-Kow. 

 By Laurence Oliphant, Esq., f.r.g.s.. Secretary to the Earl of 

 Elgin. With a Chart of the River; by Capt. Sherard Osborn, 

 R.N., C.B., r.R.G.s., in command of Her Majesty's Ship Furious. 



The squadron consisted of the Retribution, Cruiser, and Furious, with 

 the gunboats Dove and Lee, and started from near Shanghae on Nov. 

 9th, 1858. The Retribution was found to draw too much water, and 

 was ultimately left 90 miles above Nankin ; the remaining vessels 

 attained to the far-famed Chinese mart Han-Kow, which is upwards 



