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most useful, and best adapted to the compendious stock of a traveller, by con. 

 suiting which, he may make himself familiar with their use. 



4. To prepare brief instructions for such as are setting out on their travels ; 

 pointing out the parts most desirable to be visited ; the best and most practica- 

 ble means of proceeding thither ; the researches most essential to make ; pheno- 

 mena to be observed ; the subjects of natural history most desirable to be procur. 

 ed ; and to obtain all such information as may tend to the extension of our geo- 

 graphical knowledge. And it is hoped that the Society may ultimately be ena- 

 bled, from its funds, to render pecuniary assistance to such travellers as may re- 

 quire it, in order to facilitate the attainment of some particular object of research. 



5. To correspond with similar societies that may be established in different 

 parts of the world ; with foreign individuals engaged in geographical pursuits, 

 and with the most intelligent British residents in the various remote settlements 

 of the Empire. 



6. To open a communication with all those philosophical and literary societies 

 with which Geography is connected ; for as all are fellow -labourers in the diffe. 

 rent departments of the same vineyard, their united efforts cannot fail mutually 

 to assist each other. 



7. And lastly. In order to induce men of eminence and ability in every 

 branch of Science, Literature, and the Arts, and in particular those who have 

 travelled by sea and by land, and all such as are skilled in Geographical Know- 

 ledge, and likely to become useful and efficient Members, it was suggested that 

 the admission fee and annual contribution should be on as moderate a scale as, 

 with the number of subscribers calculated upon, would be sufficient to enable the 

 Society to fulfil the important objects herein alluded to. 



The Meeting then proceeded to nominate the following gentlemen as a Provi- 

 sional Committee, to draw up certain leading principles, as the groundwork on 

 which such a Society may be established. 



The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. Major the Hon. George KeppelL 



Lieut.-Gen, Sir Thomas Macdougall Henry Ward, Esq. 



Brisbane, K.C.3. Lieut.-Col. Colby, R.E. 



Sir Arthur De Capell Brooke, Bart. Thomas Murdoch, Esq. 



John Cam Hobhouse, Esq. M.P. Commander Mangles, R.N. 



Robert William Hay, Esq. Roderick Impey Murchison, Esq. 



Colonel Leake. Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. 



Robert Brown, Esq. Captain Smith, R.N. 



Captain Beaufort, R.N. John Barrow, Esq. 



Captain Basil HaU, R.N. George Ballas Greenough, Esq. 



Commander M'Konochie, Provisional Secretary, 



At a Meeting of the above-mentioned Committee, held on the 26th May, the 

 following Resolutions were agreed to. 



1. That the Society be called The Geoghaphical Society of London. 



2. That the number of Ordinary Members be not limited ; but the number 

 of honorary foreign Members to be limited as hereafter shall be determined. 



3. That as soon as the number of Subscribers shall amount to three hundred^ 

 a general meeting be called, to appoint a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Trea- 

 surer, Secretaries, and a Council, to conduct the affairs of the Society ; and for 

 approving, altering, and, if necessary, establishing such other regulations, in ad- 

 dition to those herein recommended, as may appear to be necessary for the well- 

 being of the Society, 



4. That the election of the Council and Officers of the Society be annual. 



5. That the office of President be not held by the same individual for a longer 

 period than two consecutive years ; but that he be eligible for re-election after 

 the lapse of one year. 



