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to the south, and approaching Africa from the south-east by 

 a certain ITorayuo? Aldioyjr, which he believed to be the 

 Zambesi. The course is then directed along the shore of 

 this, as in Livingstone's second expedition ; the central 

 plateau is then entered, as in his last ; and the upper falls of 

 the Nile are visited, — as by Speke and Baker, — where it 

 descends Bu/SXlvcou opoiv diro, which Professor Everett 

 thought indicated the vast reaches overgrown by the Byblus 

 reed, so prominently noticed by Sir Samuel Baker. 



The date of the Prometheus is approximately 472 before 

 Christ. 



Attention was also called to the verifications of the 

 Homeric geography, given by Mr. Gladstone in 1858, and 

 since more accurately worked out in Germany. 



Six hundred and ninetieth Meeting. 



April 12, 1876. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Vice-President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Messrs. 

 Hamlin and Marsh, accepting their election as members of the 

 Academy ; also, a letter from Mr. E. A. Thompson, of North 

 Woburn, asking aid in securing the house of Count Rumford 

 for public purposes. It was 



Voted, To present to the North Woburn Literary Associa- 

 tion a copy of the " Life and Works of Count Rumford." 



The following gentlemen were elected into the Academy: — 



John Langdon Sibley, of Cambridge, to be Resident Fel- 

 low in Class IH., Section 2. 



Henry A. Rowland, of Baltimore, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 3. 



Balfour Stewart, of Manchester, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 3. 



On the recommendation of the Rumford Committee, it 

 was 



Voted, To allow the Associate Fellows to purchase copies 



