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cended and encamped on by British surveyors with great distrust. 
Nevertheless, Captain Montgomerie displayed so much tact that he 
completely won the confidence and regard at last both of the Maha 
Bajah Golab Sing and the Maha Rajah Rumheer Sing. Then the 
too memorable mutiny of 1857 broke out; and while most of the 
captain’s European assistants were withdrawn to assist in the mili- 
tary operations, the natives who were left with him had come from 
the same plains of Hindostan as the rebellious Sipahis, nevertheless 
all the attendants proved faithful ; and except on one occasion the 
progress of the survey was not interfered with. 
It will thus be seen, that the great Indian trigonometrical survey 
which began amongst the pestilential jungles of southern India, and 
worked gradually, northward under Lambton and Everest, has now 
at last reached the greatest mountain chain in the world ; and never 
before were such great heights submitted to the processes of accurate 
geodesy. The occasion appears to have called forth a deal of pecu- 
liar talent among our Indian officers ; and amongst those who have 
specially shone forth in this calling was an assistant of Captain Mont- 
gomerie’s, who subsequently joined the army before Delhi and Luck- 
now, and was killed before the latter place by an accidental explosion 
of powder. He was lamented much by the surveyors, among whom 
he was unrivalled in physical power, endurance, and cheerfulness 
under fatigue ; his adventures and achievements amongst the snowy 
mountains had been the frequent theme of praise and admiration in 
many an encampment ; and he had intended to devote his rare and 
splendid qualities as a mountain surveyor, had he survived, to the 
exploration of central Asia on rigorous principles. 
Captain Montgomerie is now actively at work, continuing in 
the higher regions of Thibet what he began and carried out so well 
in the lower valley of Kashmir. 
The following Gentleman was balloted for, and duly admit- 
ted an Ordinary Fellow : — - 
William Chambers, Esq. of Glenormiston. 
The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 
Second Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in 
Lunacy for Scotland. Edin. 1860. 8vo. — From, the Com- 
missioners. 
