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public departments, or in the possession of private individuals, as to 

 be nearly unavailable to the public. 

 The objects, then, of such a Society as is now suggested would be, 



1. To collect, register, and digest, and to print for the use of the 

 Members, and the public at large, in a cheap form and at certain in- 

 tervals, such new, interesting, and useful facts and discoveries as the 

 Society may have in its possession, and may from time to time acquire. 



2. To accumulate gradually a library of the best books on geo- 

 graphy—a selection of the best Voyages and Travels — a complete 

 collection of maps and charts, from the earliest period of rude geo- 

 graphical delineations to the most improved of the present time ; as 

 well as all such documents and materials as may convey the best in- 

 formation to persons intending to visit foreign countries ; it being of 

 the greatest utility to a traveller to be aware, previously to his setting- 

 out, of what has been already done, and what is still wanting, in the 

 countries he may intend to visit. 



3. To procure specimens of such instruments as experience has 

 shown to be most useful,, and best adapted to the compendious stock 

 of a traveller, by consulting which, he may make himself familiar with 

 their use. 



4. To prepare brief instructions for such as are setting out on their 

 travels ; pointing out the parts most desirable to be visited j the best 

 and most practicable means of proceeding thither ; the researches most 

 essential to make ; phenomena to be observed; the subjects of na- 

 tural history most desirable to be procured ; and to obtain all such 

 information as may tend to the extension of our geographical know- 

 ledge. And it is hoped that the Society may ultimately be enabled, 

 from its funds, to render pecuniary assistance to such travellers as 

 may require it> in order to facilitate the attainment of some particular 

 object of research. 



5. To correspond with similar societies that may be established in 

 different parts of the world ; with foreign individuals engaged in 

 geographical pursuits, and with the most intelligent British residents 

 in the various remote settlements of the empire. 



6. To open a communication with all those philosophical and 

 literary societies with which Geography is connected; for as all are 

 fellow-labourers in the different departments of the same vineyard, 

 their united efforts cannot fail mutually to assist each other. 



The Meeting then proceeded to nominate a Provisional Committee 

 to consider and propose resolutions to be submitted to a General 

 Meeting. 



July 16. — At a Meeting of the above Society, held at the Rooms 

 of the Horticultural Society, Regent street, on Friday the 16lh July, 

 J. Barrow, Esq. in the chair; the following Resolutions were adopt- 

 ed: — 



1. That the Society be called "The Geographical Society of 

 London." 



2. That the number of ordinary Members be not limited ; but that 

 the number of Honorary Foreign Members be limited, as shall here- 

 after be determined. 



2 P 2 3. That 



