PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 
OF LONDON. 
SESSION 1858. 
Thirteenth Meeting (Anniversary), 1 p.m., May 24 th, 1858. 
Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been read and con- 
firmed, the regulations respecting the Anniversary Meetings were 
next read, when the President appointed William Bollaert and John 
Brown, Esqrs., Scrutineers for the Ballot. 
The Rev. H. Lewis, T. J. De Bourgho, Edward David Ogilvie, 
William Nicholas Reed, Samuel Leigh Sotheby, and William 
Reynolds Vines, Esqrs., were proposed as Candidates for election at 
the next Meeting. 
The Report of the Council, with the Balance Sheet for 1857 and 
the Estimate for 1858, was then read and adopted. 
The President next delivered the Patron’s or Victoria Gold Medal 
to His Excellency the Hon. G. M. Dallas, the American Minister, 
on "behalf of Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, Superintendent of 
the United States Coast Survey, for his extensive surveys of 
America, and for the additions made by him to our knowledge of 
Geography and Hydrography. 
The Founder’s Gold Medal was delivered to Captain Richard 
Collinson, r.n., c.b., for his discoveries in the Arctic Regions, and 
for having, in H. M. S. Enterprise , penetrated farther to the 
Eastward, through Behring Strait, than had been reached by any 
other vessel. 
The President then read his Anniversary Address, for which a 
unanimous Vote of Thanks was passed, with a request that he 
would allow it to he printed. 
The Ballot being concluded, the Scrutineers reported that the 
changes advised by the Council had been adopted. The vacancy 
among the Vice-Presidents, occasioned by the retirement of Sir 
Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart., to he supplied by Captain Richard 
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