Abstract

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY MEDALS.—The Founder's Medal for 1878, of the Royal Geographical Society, has been awarded to Baron F. von Richthofen for his extensive travels and scientific explorations in China; also for his great work now in course of publication, in which the materials accumulated during his long journeys are elaborated with remarkable lucidity and completeness. The Patron's Medal has been given to Capt. Henry Trotter, R.E., for his services to geography, in having conducted the survey operations of the late Mission to Eastern Turkistan, under Sir Douglas Forsyth, which resulted in the connection of the Trigono-metrical Survey of India with the Russian Surveys from. Siberia, and for having further greatly improved the map of Central Asia. Mr. Stanley, being already a medallist, is disqualified from receiving a similar honour, but he has been elected an honorary corresponding member, and is to receive the thanks of the Council for his discoveries.

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