PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 
OF LONDON. 
. SESSION 1857-8. 
Third Meeting , Dec. 14 th, 1857. 
Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President, in the Chair. 
Elections. — The Earl of Carnarvon ; Lieut. J. C. Cowell , r.e. ; Lieut.- 
Col. H. James , Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey ; J. B. Johnston ; 
F. P. Key sell ; Alderman W. A. Rose; H. Donald Spence ; and Lieut. -Col. 
Andrew Scott Waugh, Survey or- General and Superintendent of the great 
Trigonometrical Survey of India , were elected Fellows. 
Presentations. — The Marquis of Breadalbane, Mr. Edwin Williams, 
and Mr. G. B. C. Leverson were presented upon their election. 
Donations. — The following were among the donations to the 
Library since the previous meeting : — Raper’s Navigation, sixth 
edition ; Superintendent Bache’s Report of the United States’ Coast 
Survey ; Statistical Report of the United States Army, by the Sur- 
geon-General ; Report of Major Emory on the United States and 
Mexican Boundary Survey ; United States Naval and Astronomical 
Expedition under Lieutenant Gilliss ; Charts and Sailing Directions, 
published by the Depot de la Marine of France ; Atkinson’s ‘ Ori- 
ental and Western Siberia ; ’ La France Illustree — Geographic, His- 
toire, &c., par Y. A. Malte-Brun ; Transactions of the Franklin 
Institute of Pennsylvania, of the Academy of Sciences of Madrid, 
of the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, of the Historical 
Society of Wisconsin, of the American Academy of Sciences, of 
the Boston Society of Natural History, of St. Louis Academy of 
Sciences, of the American Antiquarian, Geographical, and Philoso- 
phical Societies, and of the Zoological and Statistical Societies of 
London, &c. 
In calling attention to the numerous presentations received since the last 
meeting, the President specially referred to Mr. Atkinson’s work on his ‘ Ex- 
plorations in Oriental and Western Siberia and Chinese Tartary.’ The work, 
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