296 EEPORT— 1882. 



Fr. c. 



1882. I'eb. 10 Gustav Schneider, Basle. On commission 2010 preparations, 

 = 2,625 fr „ 



Prof. Fritsch, Berlin .... 26 „ 50* 



E. Ward, Manchester. On commission 

 = 15,750 fr. 



Prof. H. J. von Ankum, Groningen 



R. and J. Beck, London 



C. Baker, London . 



L. Dreyfus, London 



Terisse, Castellamare 



Prof. Emery, Bologna 



Gibson Carmichael, Naples 



Prof. Lankester, London 



Prof Mojisisovitz, Gratz . 



Prof. Haddon, Dublin 



3581-25 



Report of the Committee, consisting of James Glaisher (^Secretary\ 

 the Kev. Canon Tristram, and the Rev. F. Lawrence, appointed- 

 for the purpose of promoting the Survey of Eastern Palestine. 



We have to report, as regards tlie survey of Eastern Palestine, that the 

 Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund were able, in the spring of 

 last year, to organise and equip an expedition for the execution of this 

 important work. They -were able to secure the sei'vices of Captain 

 Conder, R.E., formerly in charge of the survey of Western Palestine, 

 and they -were granted by the War Office the services of Lieutenant 

 Mantell, R.E., a young officer who had recently left Chatham. They were 

 also able to re-engage Messrs. Black and Armstrong, now pensioners of 

 the Royal Engineers. The party left England on March 16, 1881, 

 arriving at Beyrout early in April. Their instructions were, on receiving 

 the instruments, which were not quite ready when they left England, 

 to begin the survey in the north, and to make as much use of the 

 friendly Druses as possible. Unfortunately, a revolt of these people 

 made work in the Hauran impossible, and it was finally decided by 

 Captain Conder to commence in the south, where it appeared probable 

 that operations could be conducted with safety. Accordingly he led his 

 party across the Jordan, and commenced and carried on the survey for 

 some months. 



Unfortunately it had been discovered by the Turkish authorities that 

 the firman with which our party worked was one issued by a former 

 Sultan, and that it did not convey the power of working east of the 

 Jordan. Peremptory orders were received from Constantinople that the 

 work was to be stopped immediately. But by this time 500 square 

 miles of the survey had been accomplished. 



Efforts were made by the Foreign Office, by Lord Dufferin, and by 

 Captain Conder himself, to obtain a new firman. The matter is so far 

 advanced that a firman has been promised. But it is not yet signed. 



Captain Conder kept his party in winter quarters at Jerusalem, where 

 they were employed in laying down the work and calculating the obser- 

 vations and making fair drawings of the plans. In the April of the year 

 their Royal Highnesses Princes Edward and George of Wales reached 

 Palestine, and Captain Conder was commanded to attend them on their 

 tour, which lasted six weeks. In the course of the journey the Mosque 



