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the lake of Taganyika, which Dr. Kirk says he reached in October 
last at Ujiji, at the pomt where stores awaited him. These letters 
were sent down by Arabs travelling to Ragamoyo, a place on the 
coast near Zanzibar. Letters, maps, and stores would meet the 
doctor at Ujiji, being forwarded from Zanzibar. 
The Rey. F. W. Holland, during the last winter, has made a 
third visit to the Sinaitic peninsula. The results of his journey were 
given in a paper read on the 11th May. Starting from Suez on 
foot, he reached the monastery at the foot of the Jebel Musa (Mount 
Sinai), his head-quarters, whilst he explored the whole country in 
that neighbourhood for four months. Letting himself down from 
the wall of the convent, he daily traversed some mountain path, 
assisted by Arabic ibex hunters. Occasionally he took an Arab to 
carry his blanket and bag of provisions when he intended to camp 
out for three or four nights. He was thus enabled to take heights 
of mountains, and to measure and map out valleys hitherto incor- 
rectly given. He found more vegetation than previous information 
had led him to suppose, and two or three springs were to be dis- 
covered on every mountain. Jebel Um Alowee (possibly a corrup- 
tion of Elohim), north-east of Jebel Musa, is a fresh discovery of 
Mr. Holland’s, and he puts it forward as a possible rival to the 
latter mountain as the true Sinai. The wilderness of Sin he would 
identify with the plains of Es Seyh ; and he adds his protest to that 
of many others against the theory that the Sinaitic inscriptions are 
to be esteemed the work of the Israelites on their journey out of 
Egypt. The next paper was by Commissioner Chimmo on the 
north-east coast of Labrador. 
At the anniversary meeting, on Monday, 25th of May, the 
Founder’s Medal was awarded to Dr. Augustus Petermann, the 
well-known geographical writer, the originator of the German expe- 
dition to the North Pole, the editor of the ‘Geographische Mit- 
theilungen ;’ and at the same time the Patron’s or Queen’s Medal was 
assigned to M. Gerhard Rholfs, on account of his journeys into the 
interior of Africa from the northern coast, from which, on one occa- 
sion, he penetrated as far as the Guinea coast. A gold watch also 
was awarded as an extra distinction to the pundit, whose name has 
not yet appeared, but who was employed by Captain Montgomery 
to survey in Thibet. The report of the Council, recommending the 
presentation of two gold and two bronze medals to the successful 
candidates at an annual examination in physical and political geo- 
graphy, was afterwards received and approved. The Chief Com- 
missioner of Crown Lands has promised the Society a site for 
building facing the Thames Embankment, where the maps and books 
of reference of the Society might be readily accessible to the public. 
The President, in his address, enumerated those works that had 
been added to this library during the last year, amongst which may 
