PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
' THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 
SOCIETY. 
Ordinary Meeting, October 7th, 1862. 
E. W. Btnney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
A Paper, by Robert Rawson, Esq., Flon. Mem., was 
read, entitled, “ Memoir of the late Professor E. Hodgkinson. 
Part 2nd.” 
Ordinary Meeting, October 21st, 1862. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Rev. W. N. Molesworth introduced to the Society 
M. Jules Gerard, the celebrated African traveller and lion 
hunter, officer of the French Army in Africa. 
M. Gerard delivered an address on Africa, in reference 
to its future relations with Europe, and on the journey of 
exploration which he proposes to undertake in the former 
continent. 
The following is a translation by the Rev. W. N. 
Molesworth, from a summary made by M. Gerard, who 
spoke in the French language. 
M. Gerard discussed — 1st, the question of climate ; 2nd, 
that of the races of men by whom the African continent is 
peopled ; 3rd, the means by which he hopes to avoid the 
difficulties and the dangers which have led to the failure or 
the death of many previous explorers. M. Gerard observed 
that Africa is unhealthy only on the southern, eastern, and 
western coasts, in the neighbourhood of the equator ; but he 
maintained that in other latitudes, and especially in the 
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