PR 
NGS 
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OF 
THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 
OF LONDON. 
SESSION 1857-8, 
First Meeting , Monday, November 9th, 1857. 
Sir RODERICK I* MURCHISON, President, in the Chair. 
Presentation. — Lieutenant- Colonel J. Temple West was officially ad- 
mitted upon his election. 
Elections. — Lieut . P. Blakiston, r.n. ; Lieut. B. Brine , r.e. ; Colonel H. 
Cartwright , Grenadier Guards ; Lieut. A. H. Gilmore , r.n. ; J. R. Elsey , 
M.R.C.S., late Surgeon of the North Australian Expedition ; Frederick S. and 
William PL Homfray, and Edwin Williams , Esqrs., were elected F'ellows. 
Accessions. — The accessions to the Library and Map-Rooms, since 
the last meeting, were nnmerons and important, among which were 
Davis’s China; Jervis’s Geological Map of the Crimea; maps published 
by the Topographical and Statistical Depot of the War Department ; 
Observations, Magnetical and Meteorological, made at the Observatory 
at Toronto ; Maps of Bavaria, by the Bavarian Government ; Plans of 
Delhi, by the East India Company and Colonel James, r.e., f.r.g.s. ; 
French Charts, published by the Depot de la Marine ; the Admiralty 
Charts and Sailing Directions; Map of the North-West part of 
Canada ; Portrait of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Beaufort ; Astronomical 
Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory; the Transactions 
of the Hakluyt Society ; Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania; the 
Academies of Sciences of Paris, Vienna, Madrid, and Stockholm ; 
the German Oriental Society ; Darmstadt Geographical Society ; 
Geological Society of Dublin ; Society of Antiquaries ; the Royal, 
the Agricultural, the Astronomical, the Statistical, and the Geo- 
logical Societies ; the Asiatic Societies of London, Paris, and 
Bengal; the Madras Literary Society, &c. ; the Minutes, of the Board 
of Education ; Coello’s Maps of Spain, &c. &c. 
The President said : Before we proceed to the regular business of the 
evening, I beg to congratulate you, gentlemen, on assembling at last in a place 
capable of receiving our meml ers, who are now much too numerous to be 
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