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WE are glad to know that General R. Strachey, R.E., F.R.S., has agreed to accept the presidency of the Royal Geographical Society, in succession to Lord Aberdare. The Society's honours for the present year will be conferred as follows:—The Founder's Medal to Lieut.-Colonel T. H. Holdich, R. E., for the eminent services he has rendered to geography in Afghanistan; the Patron's Medal to the Rev. George Grenfell, for the extensive explorations he has carried out during his thirteen years' residence in Africa, partly in the Cameroons country and more recently in the Congo region; the Murchison Grant to Mr. George Bourne, second in command and sole survivor of the Lands-borough Expedition, which crossed the continent of Australia in 1861; the Back Premium to Sarat Chandra Das, for his researches in Tibet; the Gill Memorial to Mr. J. F. Needham, for his explorations in the Lohit Valley of the Brahmaputra. The following have been made Honorary Corresponding Members:—H.R.H. Krom MunDamrong Rajah Nubharp, Director-General of Surveys and Minister of Public Instruction, Siam; Dr. Alfred Kirchhoff, Professor of Geography at Hallé University, and President of the Hallé Geographical Society; and Dr. E. Naumann, late Director of the Geographical and Topographical Survey of Japan.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 35, 615 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035615a0
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