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received during the course of these interesting researches, whieh 

 have extended over several years from our Consul in Egypt, the 

 Hon. Charles Murray — from the late Viceroy, Abbas Pasha — and 

 especially from the able engineer, Hekekyan Bey, who was educat- 

 ed in England, and of whom Mr. Horner gives a very interesting 

 biographical memoir. The entire expense of the researches carried 

 on during three seasons, of some original surveys, and the prepa- 

 ' ration of various maps on a large scale, and many drawings, amount- 

 ing altogether to a very considerable sum, have been, with great 

 liberality, defrayed by the Egyptian Government. The expense of 

 analysing the soils sent to England was met by a grant of money 

 from the Royal Society. — /Saturday Review, Feb. 23. 



The Geographical Society. 



At the meeting of the Bombay Geographical Society held on 

 the 21st January, the following letter from Captain Burton was laid 

 before the meeting. The various references contained in it were 

 made at the suggestions of the Committee of the Society in the 

 correspondence with Captain Burton, and with Government in 

 December 1856 : — 



Zanzibar, May 25th, 1857. 

 Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your official 

 leter dated the 8th December 1856, conveying to me, by order of 

 the Geographical Society of Bombay, certain suggestions regard- 

 ing the expedition into Eastern intertropical Africa, which I have 

 been appointed to lead, and to express my gratitude for their valua- 

 ble instructions and recommendations. 



During my last preparatory journey from Mombator, on the 

 Panjan river and thence by land to Fuga, the capital of an interest- 

 ing mountain district — Usambara — I left at Zanzibar for com- 

 parison a barometer in charge of Mr. Frost, Medical Officer to the 

 Consulate, the instrument (by Adie) obligingly lent to me by the 

 Secretary of the Bombay Geographical Society. It would have 

 done scant service during a coasting voyage, and on a rough 



