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considered worthy of this distinction. The council consider as coming 

 within the meaning of this proposition — a detailed account of any excava- 

 tion or research made by the candidate, the result of which is the establish- 

 ment of any lost site of antiquity, and the recovery of any object sufficiently 

 important to history, science, or the arts. 



The president and council also give notice, that his Majesty's premium 

 of fifty guineas, for 1832, will be given to the author of the best work 

 transmitted to the Society, of the following nature ; — A Traveller's 

 Manual — containing a clear and concise enumeration of the objects to which 

 a geographer's attention should be especially directed ; a statement of the 

 readiest means by which the desired information in each branch may be 

 obtained ; a list of the best instruments for determining positions, measuring 

 elevations and distances, observing magnetic phenomena, ascertaining tem- 

 perature, climate, &c. ; directions for adjusting the instruments, formulae 

 for registering the observations, and rules for working out the results; — 

 adapted to the use, not of the general traveller alone, but also of him who, 

 in exploring barbarous countries, may be obliged to carry, and often conceal 

 his implements. Each candidate is requested to send his dissertation 

 privately (without his name, and, if he chooses, transmitted by another 

 person, but revised and pointed by himself) to the secretary, on or previous 

 to the second Monday in March of the years 1822-3 respectively, with a 

 motto written on it ; and he is at the same time to send a paper, sealed up, 

 with the same motto on the outside, which paper shall enclose another 

 paper, folded up and sealed, with his name written within. The papers 

 containing the names of those candidates who shall not succeed, will be 

 destroyed unopened. And in all cases, the successful competitor will be at 

 liberty to publish his communication on his own account, under the sanction 

 of the Society. 



The president and the council further give notice, that it is their intention 

 at future periods to propose the following as prize subjects : — An essay on 

 the actual state of geography in its various departments, distinguishing the 

 known from the unknown, and shewing what has been, and what remains to 

 be done in order to render it an exact science ; together with an indication 

 of the best processes to be adopted in order to supply the several desiderata. 

 An extensive series of geographical tables, (with reference to authorities,) 

 shewing the various names, written in the native language and character, by 

 which the same places have been known, in different countries, and at suc- 

 cessive periods of history. The best mechanical inventions for facilitating 

 the acquisitions of geographical knowledge, or rendering it more available to 

 the public. Under this head may be included the simplification of instru- 

 ments, more compendious methods of determining positions, and all improve- 

 ments in the art of drawing and engraving maps, whereby their precision 

 and distinctness may be increased, and greater scope and expression given to 

 what may be called the language of topography. 



May 8. Greenough, Esq. President, in the chair. Captain King's 



paper on South America, was concluded. ( Vide Geographical Collec- 

 tions, supra.) A letter was next read from Lieutenant Glennie, dated at 

 Guanaxata, giving an account of a visit to the Pyramids of Teotihualcan, 

 from Mexico. (Vide Geographical Collections.) 



Rnyal Society March 3. Mr Lloyd's paper concluded. 



March 10. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the chair. A 

 description of a graphical register of tides and winds, by H. R. Palmer^ 

 Esq. was read. 



March 17. A paper was read, entitled " Proposed Plan for supplying 

 Filtered Water to the Metropolis and its Suburbs," by W. Wright, Esq. 

 civil engineer. 



And a paper, " On the Variable Intensity of Terrestrial Magnetism, 



