334 SIR RODERICK I. MURCHISON’S ADDRESS— CONCLUSION. [May 24, 1858. 
simply by tbe grant of 500?. per annum — a sum 1 venture to say not 
amounting to a tenth part of what would be incurred, if our highly 
useful and really national establishment were managed by any 
Government. 
High as we have risen in the last few years, I feel indeed confident 
from what I see around me, and from a pretty intimate acquaintance 
with the mainsprings of our prosperity, that our future career may 
be rendered permanently useful and brilliant, provided only there 
be a continuance of the same hearty union and good fellowship which 
now so happily prevail among us. For the part I have borne in 
this cheering progress, whether in aiding the onward march or in 
sustaining the dignity of the Koyal Geographical Society, I can 
with gratitude say that my poor efforts have been much overpaid 
by your kind approbation. Let me then assure you, that as by a 
sort of friendly fiction, you have evaded the regulations which pre- 
scribe that your Presidents should successively retire from office after 
two years’ service, and are pleased to view my first year’s labours 
during the present consulate, as having been given for my lamented 
predecessor Admiral Beechey, I will try to perform my duties as 
before, and will not shrink from the endeavour to render my seventh 
year of probation as effective as any one of my preceding terms of 
office. 
P.S. — An important geographical feature in the outline of the western por- 
tion of the Himalaya Mountains has come to my knowledge since this 
Address was printed. By permission of our Associate and Gold-medallist, 
Col. Andrew Scott Waugh, Lieut. T. G. Montgomerie has published, in the 
fourth number for 1857 of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, a 
Memorandum on the Snowy Mountains of the Kashmir series of the Himalayas, 
in which the Nanga Parbat or Dagarmur, to the north of Kashmir, is esti- 
mated at a height of 26,629 feet above the sea. 
LONDON : PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMEORD STREET, 
AND CHARING CROSS. 
