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body reported to the Congress its opinion with regard to every question about to 

 be submitted to it, and this opinion carried so much weight that the views of the 

 Vice-Presidents were in every case accepted by the Congress as a whole. 



Another useful innovation is the resolution that the officers of each Inter- 

 national Geographical Congress are to retain their duties until the meeting of the 

 next Congress. The Congress only meets once in three or four years, and in the 

 interval there has been no authority charged with the duty of seeing that the 

 resolutions passed are cai-ried out. Continuity of action is now secured. 



The total number attending the Congress was about 1,500, of whom about 600 

 wei-e foreigners, including most of the professors of geography in the world. The 

 bringing together of so many workers in one science was, in all probability, one of 

 the most beneficial effects of the Congress, and plenty of independent evidence 

 could be brought forward to show how much our foreign guests appreciated our 

 efforts to entertain them. 



The Congress has never met in Germany, and it was decided that the next 

 meeting should be held in Berlin in the year 1899. 



6. On the Cosmosphere : an instrument combining the Terrestrial and 

 Celestial Globes for the purpose of demonstrating Astronomical-Geogra- 

 2)hical Phenomena and Navigational Problems. By W. B. Blaikie. 



The cosmosphere is a form of globe in which the celestial sphere is a trans- 

 parent film mounted with an independent motion outside the terrestrial sphere and 

 concentric with it. The two spheres are connected with a tinatiug horizon auto- 

 matically adjusting itself to auy latitude to be examined, thereby showing the 

 student the actual apparent motions of the heavenly bodies from the standpoint of 

 the observer; it also enables him, by measuring from the zenith and the horizon, 

 to see and practise the problems in geodesy and navigation which have to be 

 solved by travellers and navigators. 



SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 



T]^e Section did not meet. 



MOXDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 

 The following Papers and Report were read : — 

 1. An Expedition to Ruioenzori. By G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A. 



The journey of which this is an account was undertahen with funds partly sup- 

 plied by the Government Grant Committee of the Koyal Society, and partly by 

 myself. 



The general route which I adopted was as follows: — 



I left Mombasa in November 1893, and travelled up to Kampala, Uganda, by 

 the ordinary route. I was unable to visit Elgon, and obliged to remain a month 

 in Kampala on account of the war with Kabbarega which was then in progress. 

 During this time Captain Gibb, Acting Administrator, entertained me with the 

 very greatest kindness. After a month's delay, there seemed to be no chance of 

 definite news from Unyoro, so I passed down through Buddu to the Kagera, which 

 I was anxious to visit. I crossed this river at Kitangule and followed its course 

 for six or seven days westwards. I then struck across Ankole to Ruwenzori. 



After four mouths spent on the mountain, I turned southwards again, reaching 

 the Kagera river at Latoma. I followed it as nearly as I could manage across 

 Karagwe and then turned across Uruudi and Bugufu towards Tanganyika, which 



