PROCEEDINGS 
OP 
THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 
OF LONDON. 
SESSION 1858. 
Fifth Meeting , Monday , January 25th, 1858. 
Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President, in tlie Chair. 
Elections. — Captain Howard C. Elphinstone , r.e. ; Thomas Joseph 
Hutchinson , H.B.M . Consul, Bight of Biafra, Lieutenant-Governor of 
Fernando Po , $-c. ; Robert Moffat , Government Surveyor , Cape of Good 
Hope ; Dr. Ferdinand Mueller, Botanist and Explorer of Tropical Aus- 
tralia ; Thomas Witlam Atkinson, author of ‘ Travels in Oriental and 
Western Siberia ; and George Bishop, Jun ., f.r.a.s. ; Edward Burmester ; 
Isaac Gregory ; Arthur Boutcher Halloran ; Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff, 
and Charles Edward Lefroy, Esqrs., were elected Fellows. 
Exhibitions. — Among the articles exhibited at the meeting were 
Sketches, by Mr. Th. Baines, of the North Australian and South 
African Expeditions ; Original Tracing, by Captain W. Allen, r.n., of 
the Niger; Photograph of the steamer “ Dayspring,” recently lost 
np that river ; Reduction of Lieutenant Glover’s Chart of the Niger ; 
Specimens for a Submarine Telegraph Cable, by M. Ballustrini. 
Donations. — The following were among the donations since the 
previous meeting : — ‘ Summer Months among the Alps,’ by T. W. 
Hinchliff ; 4 Annales de l’Observatoire Physique Central de Russie •’ 
Blackie’s ‘ Imperial Atlas ;’ the ‘ Transactions of the Geographical 
Society of Bombay ;’ and Charts from the Hydrographic Office of 
the Admiralty, &c. 
Announcements. — The President stated that he had received from 
the Hydrographer information to the effect that the “ Sunbeam,” 
with a fresh supply of instruments, presents, and other articles, had 
sailed the day before from Liverpool for the Niger, to replace the 
“ Dayspring,” lost near Rabba. 
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