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departure of a young officer, charged by the African Institution with the 

 duty of following the southern bank of the Bahr-el-Abiad as far as Bornou, 

 where (according to the opinions of Lord Budhoe and Major Felix, who 

 have travelled over from 400 to 500 miles of that district) the waters seem 

 to run rather as a chain of lakes than as a river. M. Jouannin announced 

 that MM. Raife and Royer contemplated travelling in the Ottoman empire. 



May 21. Several communications were made respecting Algiers. M. 

 Eyries, president of the Section of Publication, called the attention of the 

 Society to a MS. found at Lille in 1819, now in the possession of 

 Mr Granville Penn, and a duplicate of which is in the Bodleian Library of 

 Oxford. It consists of a military description of the coast of Egypt, and 

 the means of defence which it possesses, by Gilbert de Lannoy, counsellor 

 and chamberlain of Philip the Good. 



June 4. M. Guys informed the Society, that a traveller had told him, 

 that he had been at Pompeianopolis, and that the city was entire and 

 inhabited. M. Jomard communicated, on the part of M. Grey Jackson, 

 some geographical and philological observations on the empire of Morocco. 



June 18. M. Fontainier announced his departure to the east, where he 

 is sent on a mission by government. M. Rafn wrote to the Society, that he 

 had despatched to them an unpublished dissertation on the temperature of 

 the sea near Copenhagen, &c. by N. Dau, of Holstein. Dr Lhotski wrote 

 from Vienna to inform the Society of his journey to Brazil, and particularly 

 to the province of Bahia ; he also sent a prospectus of a voyage to New 

 Holland, which he intended to make for purposes of natiu-al history : and 

 notices of his work entitled, *' The History of Austrian Travelling- 

 Naturalists, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day." M. JuUien laid 

 on the table a sketch of a map of CafFraria, by M. Hertzog. M. Jomard 

 announced the return of M. de Fontmichel, a French traveller, who had 

 passed many years at Madagascar, and in India. 



July 2. M. Carcel, who intended to accompany M. Michaud in his 

 excursions in Asia, and whose particular object was the natural history of 

 this country, requested that the Society would favour him with instructions 

 respecting the places he was about to visit. The Chevalier Bonne commu- 

 nicated a letter from M. Puillon Boblaye, dated Maratonisi, 20th May, 

 1830, and containing very interesting geographical information, accompanied 

 by a plan of Sparta. 



July 16. M. Paravey announced an important discovery which had been 

 made at Oxford and London, of writings and maps older than the European 

 system, which had been collected in China by the Jesuits, and were conse- 

 quently of great interest for comparison with the maps of Marco Polo, and 

 others of greater date. 



August 6. A letter was read from M. Douville, dated Rio- Janeiro, 1st 

 June, stating, that he was retimied from his travels in the kingdom of 

 Angola and different parts of Southern Africa, and that he had made many 

 observations on latitude and longitude. M. Taitbout de Marigny, agent of 

 the government of the Low Countries at the Black Sea, presented to the 

 Society, through M. Barbie du Bocage, Is^ A plan and description of a 

 shoal near Cape Yagniche-Takil, on the south coast of Kertche : 2c?, A 

 plan of the Bay of Baldshick in Bulgaria, in which is marked a bank disco- 

 vered in 1829, and celebrated by the shipwreck of an Austrian vessel. M. 

 C. Moreau announced that M. Lander, the companion of the late Captain 

 Clapperton, sent in January, 1830, by the English government, on an expe- 

 dition to Africa, to investigate the course of the Niger, arrived at Cape Coast 

 23d February, 1830, and at Accra on the 13th March following. M. 

 Jomard exhibited a Turkish map of the world, dated 1559, which had been 

 found at Venice; it is engraved on four blocks of wood. New Spain, 

 discovered in 1518, is represented on it. The same member communicated a 

 coloured fac simile of a very ancient map belonging to the Cottonian Library 



