PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 
OF LONDON. 
SESSION 1858. 
Fourteenth Meeting , Monday , June 14 th, 1858. 
Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President, in the Chair. 
Elections. — His Excellency Count Platen , Minister of Sweden and 
Norway ; Charles Cavendish Clifford , Esq., m.p. ; the Revds. William 
Ather stone Hales , m.a., Samuel William King, a.m., and Henry Lewis , m.a., 
and Edward David Ogilvie , T. J. De Bourgho, Pascoe Charles Glyn , 
William Nicholas Reed , Samuel Leigh Sotheby , and William Reynolds Vines , 
Esqrs., were elected Fellows. 
Exhibitions. — A Map of the United States and the adjacent 
countries, from Hudson Bay to the Rio Grande, including the whole 
of British America lying south of Hudson Bay and Newfoundland, 
measuring 15 feet 4 inches by 2 6-J feet, was exhibited by Mr. H. Y. 
Poor, of the United States ; and a large painting of the family of the 
geographer, Gerard Mercator, found in the Earl of Peterborough’s 
house at Southampton, was exhibited by Mr. Evans. 
Donations. — Among other numerous donations to the Library and 
Map-Rooms since the previous meeting were, Record Map of Sebas- 
topol, by Captain E. Brine, r.e., f.r.g.s.; maps of the Canton of Zurich, 
by Professor Ziegler, f.r.g.s. ; Report of the Geological Survey of 
Canada, with accompanying Atlas, by Sir William Logan, f.r.g.s. ; 
the North-West Passage and the plans of search for Sir John 
Franklin, by John Brown, f.r.g.s. ; the Indus and its Provinces, by 
W. P. Andrew, f.r.g.s. ; Dr. Livingstone’s Cambridge Lectures, by 
the Rev. William Monk, m.a., &c., &c. 
Announcements. — The President announced that Dr. Baikie of 
the Niger Expedition had written to say that Lieut. Glover had 
obtained, during his journey to Busa, an old volume, apparently 
belonging to Mungo Park. 
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