Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. 13, no. 3.

Date:
1869
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    Tenth Meeting, 12th April, 18G9. Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, Bart., ic.c.b., President, in the Chair. Presentations.—Frederick Fitch, Esq.; Col. Barnett Ford ; William Clark, Esq. Erections.—Frederick George Chinnoclc, Esq. ; Frederick H. Leaf, Esq. ; Bogcr Leigh, Esq.; E. B. March, Esq. ; E. M. Underdown, Esq.; Charles M. T. Western, Esq.; Bev. T. G. Wilson, b.a. Accessions to the Library since the last Meeting of March 22nd : —‘ Narrative of the British Mission to King Theodore.’ By Hor- rnnzd Bassam. Presented by the Author. ‘ Historia del Peru Inde- pendiente.’ Por Mariano Felipe Paz Soldan. Presented by the Author. Four volumes of Chinese works relating to Antiquities and Natural Curiosities of the West Lake, Hangchow. Presented by C. T. Gardner, Esq. ‘ The Highlands of Brazil.’ By Capt. R. F. Burton. Purchased. Accessions to the Map-room since the last Meeting :—A Map of Abyssinia, showing the Route of the British Mission under Mr. H. Rassam, &c., from Massowah to Magdala. Compiled and presented by G. P. Badger, Esq., f.r.g.s. Turkistan, with the adjoining Portions of the British and Russian Territories. On four sheets. Compiled by Lieut.-Col. J. T. Walker, e.e., Superin- tendent of G.T.S. of India. Presented by the India Office, through C. R. Markham, Esq. Map, showing the Route-survey from Nepal to Lhasa, and thence through the Upper Valley of the Brahmaputra. By a Pundit. Compiled by Capt. T. G. Montgomerie, r.e. Ordnance Survey. (191 sheets.) Presented by Sir H. James, r.e., Director of the Ordnance Survey. The following Papers were read :— 1.—Beport of the Trans-Himalayan Explorations during 1867. By Captain T. G. Montgomerie, r.e., of the G. T. Survey, from the original Journals, &c., of the Trans-IIimalayan Exploring Parties. [Abridgment.] The Trans-Himalayan explorations made during 1865-6, from the Mansarowar Lake to Lhasa, supplied various pieces of information as to routes and places in Tibet, of which the names were unknown in India. Tibetans had been heard to talk of their gold-mines and