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of Forests, Calcutta ; Dr. W. Schlich, Conservator of Forests ; Comman- 

 der A. D. Tajdor ; W. Theobald, Esq., Geological Survey ; Capt. W. J. 

 Williams, Garo Hills ; Capt. J. Biddulph, A. D. C. to the Viceroy ; Capt. 

 W. T. Trotter, R. E., Great Trigonometrical Survey ; J. B. Hennesey, 

 Esq., do. ; Capt. W. J. Heaviside, R. E., do. ; Ney Elias, Esq., British Burma ; 

 Dr. J. Anderson, Calcutta ; Major-General A. Cunningham, C. S. I., 

 Simla ; Major T. Lewin ; Dr. H. Cayley ; Capt. H. C. Marsh ; R. T. St. John, 

 Esq., British Burma ; Major T. G. Montgomerie ; ^. Johnson, Esq., Ladcikh. 

 The following were the letters — 



1. From the French Consul General, Calcutta, 5th August, 1874. 



^ "I have the honor to forward you a copy of a letter, with enclosures, I 

 have received from the French Geographical Society, through the Ministry 

 for the Foreign Affairs, relating to the International Congress of the geo- 

 graphical sciences to be held in Paris during the spring of the next year. 



*' From the letter of the President of the Society, you will see that the 

 Committee of the Congress would be most happy to be assisted in this un- 

 dertaking by the foreign learned Societies as well as by men of science 

 and travellers of all countries. I take, therefore, the liberty to ask you whe- 

 ther I might name the Asiatic Society of Bengal for the International 

 Honorary Committee. 



" I shall feel obliged by your suggesting at the same time the names of 

 tlie travellers to whom I might appeal in this country on behalf of the 

 Congress. 



(Signed) E. Audisio, 

 Acting Consul General for France.'^ 



2. From the General Secretary, 10, Boulevard Latour-Maubourg, 

 Paris. 



Inteenation"AL Geoghaphical Congkess. 

 (Translation.) 



'"The knowledge of our terrestrial dwelling is a science," said one of 

 our most distinguished geographers, " with which we are connected by the 

 most intimate ties : few subjects touch upon so numerous and large inter- 

 ests." 



' And yet like all other sciences, Geography was for a long time the 

 exclusive province of a few scholars. It had no share in the movement 

 which carried mankind towards study, till the taste for scientific researches 

 spread over the world. Governments countenanced its progress, then 

 free associations were successively formed in different places, in order 

 to give to the geographical pursuits a quicker impulse. These Societies 

 had scarcely been created when they experienced the need of having their 

 separate works collected, at first by a regular correspondence being established, 



