A crowded meeting of the members and their friends assembled at
Burlington House, on Monday, January 28th, to receive the Reports of
the late Expeditions for the survey of the North Atlantic Telegraph
route.
The LORD ASHBURTON, President of the Society, in the Chair.
Among the many distinguished and influential personages present
were Sir R. I. Murchison, His Excellency the Danish Minister M.
de Billé, Count Apponyi, Sir Walter Trevelyan, Admiral Sir Thomas
Herbert, General Portlock, R.E., Lord Alfred Churchill, M.P., Sir
Thomas Fremantle, Sir H. Maxwell, Sir John Login, Sir Charles Bright,
Captains Collinson and Ommanney, Sir F. L. M‘Clintock, Sir F. Nicolson,
Sherard Osborn, J. Stopford, G. A. Bedford, Byron Drury, A. Ryder, and
Pike, R.N., Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. J. Wyld, M.P., Mr. Cornelius
Grinnell, of New York, Dr. Hamel, of Russia, Colonels Loyd and
Cartwright, Major Edwards, R.E., Captains Sydney Webb, C. Johnston, R.
Burton, Claude Clerk, E. M. Jones, and D. J. Herd, Drs. Ogle, Lister,
Bennett, Bigsby, and M‘Cosh, Messrs. J. R. Croskey, J. E. Davis, W. J.
Hamilton, J. Crawfurd, Brooking, C. White, R. Bentley, J. Murray, C.
V. Walker, George Saward, Arrowsmith, E. O. Smith, Cook, Gould, Vaux,
Finlay, Rev. C. P. Wilbraham, and Colonel Shaffner, Dr. Holland, Pliny
Miles, and Geo. F. Train, of the United States.
Sir Charles Bright, General Eber, the Rev. C. J. Fynes Clinton, Consul
C. P. Hodgson, of Japan, the Rev. E. H. Mainwaring Sladen, the Marquis
of Sligo, the Rev. C. Hill Wallace, the Rev. S. E. Wharton, Lieutenant
A. S. Windus, R.N., and James Aiken, Walter Brodie, James Campbell,
John E. Davis, R.N., N. Vaughan Edwards Vaughan, J. Wilson Holme, John
Learmouth, Alexander Macmillan, George Newman, G. H. Oliphant Ferguson,
Julius Reuter, Frederick Simpson, Ronald Thomson of Tehran, John
Walker, and W. Warder were elected Fellows.