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countries ; provided they are the property of private individuals, 

 and not merely imported for trade ; and that private persons should 

 be invited to send whatever they think proper of rare and precious 

 which they possess. Moreover, no selling should take place during 

 the days of exhibition ; but that articles of Colonial manufacture 

 may have their value placed upon them, selections may be made, 

 and the day after our exhibition closes, time may be given to the 

 exhibitors to dispose of whatever they think proper. 



I would add finally, that a committee be either now suggested, 

 or the matter be let stand over for a week, and then a committee 

 appointed to consider the whole subject, and draw up for publication 

 the bye-laws and details of arrangement under which this exhibition 

 shall be carried out. 



Gentlemen, the importance of the subject must be my apology for 

 thus intruding upon the time of the meeting. My time is so little 

 my own that I could not give you earlier notice of my views and 

 intentions ; for I feared, had I done so, I might have disappointed 

 you: In your usual indulgence I trust you will excuse the hasty 

 manner in which, you cannot help perceiving, these notes have been 

 thrown together. 



II. 



REPORT ON WHITE MEN'S GRAVES IN THE INTERIOR. 

 Head 10th October, 1864. 



In accordance with instructions received from the Exploration 

 Committee, we have the honour to submit to the Royal Society the 

 results of our inquiry into the evidence brought forward by Mr. W. 

 G. Conn and Mr. W. Giles, at the meeting on 29th August last, in 

 reference to the supposed graves of white men found in longitude 

 (approx.) 142deg. 35min. E., latitude (approx.) 28deg. 45min. S. 



From the tracing of Mr. Conn's route, hereto annexed, from the 

 detailed account contained in the published letters of these gentle- 

 men appended,* and from their explicit verbal and written state- 

 ments, which the committee received, it is perfectly clear that the 

 graves can in no way whatever be identified with those of any 

 traveller known to have perished in or near the locality indicated, 

 the burial places of Dr. Becker and some of his unfortunate com- 

 panions at Bulla (a locality, moreover, also visited by Messrs. Conn 

 and Giles), being the nearest to the spot where the graves of the 

 supposed white men have been found. 



* Vide Mr. Conn's letter to The Argus of January 20th, 1862, and to Dr. 

 Mueller on September 5th, 1864, and Mr. Giles' letter to The Argus, in 

 August, 1864. 



