292 Geographical Society. 



3. That the Council of the Society consist of a President, four 

 Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, two Secretaries, and twenty-one other 

 Members, to conduct the affairs of the Society. 



4. That the election of the said Council and Officers be annual. 



5. That the office of President be not held by the same individual 

 for a longer period than two consecutive years, but that he be eligible 

 for re-election after the lapse of one year. 



6. That one of the four Vice-Presidents go out annually; he being 

 eligible, however, for re-election after the lapse of one year : but the 

 Treasurer and Secretaries may be annually re-elected. 



7. That seven of the twenty-one other Members constituting the 

 Council, go out annually, at the period of the general election of 

 the Officers of the Society. 



8. That the Admission Fee of Members be3Z., and the Annual 

 Subscription 21. j or both may be compounded for by one payment 

 of 201. 



9. That such part of the Funds of the Society as may not be re- 

 quired for current expenses, be placed in the public securities, and 

 vested in the names of three Trustees, to be hereafter appointed by 

 the President and Council. 



10. That these three Trustees be Supernumerary Members of the 

 Council. 



] 1 . That early in November next a General Meeting be held, to 

 decide on a Code of Regulations and By-Laws, for the management 

 of the Society, which the President and Council will, in the mean 

 time, prepare, to be submitted to the said Meeting. 



12. And lastly, That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen com- 

 pose the Council and Officers of the Society for the first Year — 



President: The Right Honourable Viscount Goderich, F.R.S. — Vice 

 Presidents: John Barrow, Esq., F.R.S. ; Lieut -Col. Leake, F.R.S.; 

 G. Bellas Greenough, Esq., F.R.S.; Sir J. Franklin, F.R.S. — Trea- 

 surer: John Biddulph, Esq., F.H.S. — Secretaries: Captain M'Ko- 

 nochie, R.N.j Rev. George C. Renouard, Foreign and Hon. Sec. — 

 Council: Viscount Althorp, F.R.S.; Francis Bailv, Esq., F.R.S.; 

 Captain Beaufort, R.N., F.R.S.; John Britton, Esq., F.S.A.; W. 

 Brockedon, Esq.; Robert Brown, Esq., F.R.S.; Sir A. de Capell 

 Brooke, Bart., F.R.S.; Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone; Colonel Sir 

 Augustus Frazer, R.A., F.R.S.; Captain Hall, R.N., F.R.S.; W. R. 

 Hamilton, Esq., F.R.S.; R. W. Hay, Esq., F.R.S.; J. Cam Hobhouse, 

 Esq., F.R.S.; Captain Horsburgh, F.R.S.; Colonel Jones, R.E. ; 

 Captain Mangles, R.N., F.R.S.; Thomas Murdoch, Esq., F.RS. ; 

 Right Hon. Sir George Murray, G.C.B., F.RS.; Captain Lord 

 Prudhoe, R.N., F.RS.; Captain Smyth, R.N., F.R.S.; H.G.Ward, 

 Esq. 



The Chairman then addressed the following observations to the 

 Meeting, explanatory of the general views of the Society : — 



The Geographical Society of London being now established, the 

 Provisional Committee cannot close its proceedings without advert- 

 ing to the gratifying fact of there being enrolled, on the List of its 

 Members, within so short a space of time, considerably more than 



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