April 11, 1859.] FATE OF ADOLPHE SCHLAGINTWEIT. 171' 



border land between China and India, across which the caravans for ages have 

 passed between those two countries. In former times and in the days of the 

 commercial prosperit}'- of Venice, and before ships went to India by the Cap& 

 of Good Hope, all Chinese goods that were imported into Europe were carried 

 by caravans through the passes of the Himalaya mountains across the frontier 

 into India, and these caravans follow the same route at the present day for the 

 supply of Nepaul. I have seen drawings of these caravans and the passes 

 through the mountains in the Chinese magistrates' office at Shanghae. Our 

 travellers from India endeavour to pass into Tibet by the route across the 

 Himalayas ; but I think the Yang-tse-Keang is the route by which they may 

 hope to reach that country. I would call the attention of geographers to this, 

 because here is a navigable stream by which they can travel through the 

 whole of its course of 3000 miles into the border-land between China and 

 India, and thence would be able to proceed to Calcutta. I look forward 

 to the time when we shall have the course of the river open to us all the 

 way up to the mountains of Tibet. Long have we endeavoured to find 

 such a route, and now I think one has been opened by which we can pass 

 from China into India with less difficulty than has hitherto been expe- 

 rienced in the repeated endeavours made by various travellers to enter China 

 from our Indian territories. 



Tenth Meeting, April llth, 1859. 



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



Presentations. — The Rev. G. C RowcUn; Colonel W. Pottinger ; 

 Captain R. H. Price ; Colonel A, Lane Fox ; and C. A, Ducket y 

 R.N., and A, H. Macdougallj Esqrs* ; were presented upon their election. 



Elections. — The Hon. George Barrington ; Captain Thomas Birch, r.n. ; 

 Rev. James Booth, ll.d. ; Viscount Emlyn ; the Hon. and Rev. F. S, 

 Grimston ; Consul W. T. Pritchard; and Edward C. Bvx)Jiland ; H. D. P. 

 Cunningham, r.n. ; Thomas W. L. Mackean ; W. Walter Mantell ; and 

 William Wheelwright, Esqrs. ; were elected Fellows. 



Exhibitions. — A very rare French Atlas of Egypt, published by 

 the Depot de la Gnerre in 1807, presented by Mr. Robert Stephen- 

 son, M.P., F.R.G.s. ; and a diagram of Captain Selwyn's apparatus for 

 paying out electric telegraph cables, were exhibited. 



In opening the business of the evening the President announced 

 that Lord Stanley, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, had 

 communicated to the Society copies of despatches, which completely 

 set at rest the anxiety so long entertained respecting the fate of 

 Adolphe Schlagintweit, who had proceeded into Turkistan from the 

 Upper Punjab by a route considerably to the west of that followed 

 by his brothers Hermann and Robert, and had advanced far to 

 the north-west of their ultimate station, Elchi, before he met with 



