PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1858-9. 



Twelfth Meeting (Anniversary), 1 p.m., May 23rd, 1859. 



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



The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been confirmed, the 

 regulations respecting the Anniversary Meetings were next read, 

 "when the President appointed A. Gr. Findlay and John Lyons 

 M'Leod, Esqrs., Scrutineers for the Ballot. 



Lieut.-General Peter de la Motte, c.b. ; Capt. Eichard F. Burton ; 

 Capt. William F. Tytler; and Stephen W. SHver; Frederick B. 

 Montgomerie ; Coleridge Kennard ; Walter F. Leslie, of New South 

 Wales ; Edward W. Stafford, Colonial Secretary of New Zealand ; 

 and Christian Hellmann, Esqrs., were proposed as Candidates for 

 election at the next Meeting. 



The Eeport of the Council, with the Balance Sheet for 1858 and 

 the Estimate for 1859, was then read and adopted. 



The President next delivered the Founder's Gold Medal to Capt. 

 Eichard F. Burton, for his various exploratory enterprises, and 

 especially for his perilous expedition, in company with Capt. J. H. 

 Speke, to the great Lakes in Eastern Central Africa. 



The Patron's or Victoria Gold Medal was delivered to the Earl 

 of Carnarvon, on behalf of Captain John Palliser, for the valuable 

 results of his explorations in British North America and the Eocky 

 Mountains. 



A Gold Watch, awarded to Mr. J. Macdougall Stuart, for his dis- 

 coveries in South and Central Australia, was delivered to Count 

 P. E. de Strzelecki for transmission to him. 



The President then read his Anniversary Address, for which a 

 unanimous Vote of Thanks was passed, with a request that he 

 would allow it to be printed. 



At the conclusion of the Ballot, the Scrutineers reported that the 



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