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6. That the two Vice-Presidents be subject to the same regulation as regards 

 the President ; but the Treasurer and the Secretaries may be re-elected. 



7. That the officers above mentioned, with fifteen other Members, constitute 

 the Council, and that five of the fifteen are to go out annually at the period of 

 the general election of the officers of the Society. 



8. That the admission fee of Members be L.3, and the annual subscription 

 L. 2 ; or, both may be compounded for on the payment of L. 20. 



9. That all admission fees and compositions be placed in the public securities^ 

 to be hereafter applied as the Society may direct. 



10. That the funds and property of the Society be vested in the names of three 

 Trustees. 



11. That these three Trustees be supernumerary Members of the Council. 



12. That so soon as five hundred Members shall be entered on the list, a se- 

 cond General Meeting will be called to decide upon such further regulations and 

 bye-laws as shall appear beneficial and useful for the management of the Society. 



13. That Commander M'Konochie, R.N. be appointed Provisional Secretary 

 to the Society. 



Arthur de Capell Brooke. Chairman, 



Those who may be desirous of becoming Members of " The Geographical 

 Society of London," are requested to send their names to any of the gentlemen 

 of the Provisional Committee, or the Secretary, 99. Quadrant, Regent Street." 



At the beginning of last month, upwards of 400 gentlemen had joined the new 

 Institution, and a general meeting was consequently called. We hope to give 

 the detail of their proceedings, and a list of the members, in our next number. 



Miscellaneous Intelligence, 



Swan River. — The news from Swan River continues to be favourable ; the 

 number of colonists does not, however, according to the latest accounts, amount 

 to more than 400 ; ships had arrived from Europe, from New South Wales, 

 and from Batavia. According to some statements the good land is not estimat. 

 ed at more than 3000 acres. 



M. Botta is about to depart for Arabia and Egypt. 



M. Michaud, of the French Academy, is about to be sent by government into 

 Palestine to carry on researches on the itinerary of the crusaders, and to recognize 

 the places where different memorable events took place. He is to be accompanied 

 by several engineers, geographers, and artists. 



Origin of the Bushmen. — In a paper, read at a meeting of the South African In- 

 stitution, at the Cape of Good Hope, on the origin and history of the Bushmen, Dr. 

 Smith, wliose activity in elucidating the geography and natural history of those 

 countries has already called forth our encomiums, alleges reasons in favour of the 

 supposition that the Bushmen existed in Africa long previous to the appearance of 

 the Europeans, and that they were probably cotemporaneous with the Hottentots 

 themselves. He added, that communities or families, similar to what we understand 

 by the term Bushmen, inhabit all the uncultivated deserts known by the name of 

 Great Kamagualand, and conduct themselves towards the Hottentots and the 

 Damaras of their neighbourhood exactly as the former do with regard to the co- 

 lonists on our frontiers. Dr, Smith thinks that they are originally Hottentots. 



The South African Institution has offered a prize for the best essay on the cha- 

 racter, history, and geographical distribution of the Hottentots. 



