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ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal, and to 

 approach close to this stupendous snowy mass. Consequently, in 

 the mean time the privilege as well as the duty devolved on him to 

 assign to this lofty pinnacle of our globe a name whereby it may be 

 known among geographers, and become a household word among 

 civilised nations, and in virtue of this privilege and in testimony 

 of his affectionate respect for a revered chief, in conformity 

 with what he believed to be the wish of all the members of the 

 Scientific Department over which he had the honor to preside, and 

 to perpetuate the memory of that illustrious master of accurate 

 geographical research, he had determined to name this noble peak 

 of the Himalayas " Mont Everest." 



Major Thuillier further briefly explained, the mode by which these 

 snowy and distant peaks had been laid down by the operations of 

 the Government Survey, from the base survey of Sonakhoda in the 

 Purneah district, near the Darjeeling hills, along the principal 

 triangulation of the Great N. West longitudinal series, traversing 

 the Tirai Frontier and passing through Kumaon to the Dhera 

 Doon Base, and shewed that the independent results of all the 

 observations of Mont Everest were most satisfactorily accordant ; in 

 fact the accordance of the independent heights of this point is 

 closer than could have been expected, because the mountain, though 

 lofty and massive, is not a sharp well defined peak, and was observed 

 from great distances. 



Major Thuillier anticipated that when the memoir or account of 

 all these snowy peaks, stated by Col. Waugh to be in preparation with 

 special reference to publication, was received, the Society would 

 derive no small pleasure and satisfaction from such an interesting 

 subject, and he hoped to be able to lay it before a meeting with a map 

 which would serve to illustrate and explain the whole subject. 

 This being merely a preliminary announcement for which the 

 Society were indebted entirely to Colonel Waugh, it was not per- 

 haps necessary to enter into more minute details on this occasion. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to Major Thuillier. 

 Curator s Report for the August Meeting, 1856. 



In my report for this evening, I record the donations which have accu- 

 mulated for some months past. 



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