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TIBET. 
[Nov. 23, 1857. 
Second Meeting , Monday , November 23rd , 1857. 
Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President, in the Chair. 
Elections. — Professor W. Haidinger , Kt ., President of the Imperial Geo- 
graphical Society , and Director of the Geological Institute of Vienna ; and 
General Alberto Della Marmora , author of the Great Map of Sardinia , as 
Honorary Members : — and Thomas Baines, artist to the late North Australian 
Expedition ; Septimus Beardmore ; Wollaston Blake ; Cheyne Brady ; 
James Brant, Her Majesty’ s consul at Damascus ; William Camps, m.d. ; 
Lieut. -General Cannon ; Captain P. Coote, r.n. ; the Hon . C. W. Fitz- 
william, m.p. ; Lieut.- Colonel W. C. Grant ; Kirkman D. Hodgson, m.p. ; 
Henry Holroyd ; Bichard Jefferson ; Gottfried Kinkel, phil. dr. ; G. B. 
C. Leverson ; Captain F. Liardet , r.n. ; William Loch ; Matthew H. 
Marsh, m.p. ; Rev. Allen P . Moor, m.a. ; Captain J . Moore, r.n. ; the 
Hon. W. Napier ; Captain A. Phillimore, r.n. ; W. H. Sitwell ; Captain 
J. II. Speke, of the East African Expedition ; Robert Tait, and Professor 
Tennant, were elected Fellows . 
Presentations. — T he Rev. G. R. Gleig and Messrs. F. S. and 
W. H. Homfray were officially introduced upon their election. 
Donations. — A mong the donations since the previous meeting 
were ‘ Dr. Livingstone’s Travels in Africa,’ 4 Perez-Rosales’ Work on 
Chili,’ 4 Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the 
East India Company’s Observatory, Bombay,’ 4 Fullarton’s and 
Blackie’s Atlases,’ 4 Transactions of the Academy of Sciences of 
Paris and of the Royal Society of London,’ &c. 
Exhibitions. — A plan in relief of a portion of the Pyrenees, by 
the Rev. Pastor Frossard, of Ragneres-en-Bigorre ; Native MS. map 
of Delhi ; map of Cawnpiir, by Captain Yule, f.r.g.s., of the Bengal 
Engineers ; and Stanford’s map of Havelock’s campaigns, &c., were 
exhibited. 
Announcements. — T he President read a letter which had been 
received by the Secretary, through Colonel Everest, from his friend 
Lieutenant- Colonel Andrew Scott Waugh, Surveyor-General of 
India, returning thanks for the Society’s Gold Medal, which had 
been awarded him for the great Trigonometrical Survey of India. 
10, Westbourne Street, Hyde Park, 
19th November, 1857. 
Sir, — I send you some extracts of letters which I have recently received 
from Lieut. -Colonel A. S. Waugh, which I request the favour of you to lay 
before the Council as soon as may be convenient to you. 
Geo. Everest. 
To Dr. Norton Shaw, Sec. R. G. Society. 
