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Many, at this moment, provided with your
instructions, are traversing. the different parts
of the world, in order to bring to the coin-
mon centre the information they have col-
lected. Other not less worthy travellers had
preceded them in this excellent and glorious
career. Thus the upper countries of Egypt
have, been visited by Messrs. Cailiaud, Torzec,
Marmarica ; and Cyrenaria, by M. Tacho ; the
regions bordering on Senegal, by M. Mollieu ;
and that mysterious part of Africa, which devours
its explorers, by the unfortunate Rouzee and
Beaufort, who perished in the flower of their
age, the victims of their devotion to the progress
of geography. Every day, Gentlemen, your
labours give you new claims to the public grati-
tude ; every clay you render new services to your
country ; and by such efforts you associate your-
selves with the generous thoughts of a monarch
who does not confine himself to make his stand-
ard respected in every sea, but who wishes that
the Officers of his Navy should contribute to the
utmost extent of their experience and learning to
the knowledge of the globe. You dO already in
part enjoy the brilliant results of the two expedi-
tions round the world, ordered, and successively
completed since the peace.. The first in the cor-
vettes Uranie and Physicienne—pne command-
ed by Captain Freycinet ; the other in the cor.
vette Coquille, under Captain Duperrey, both
members of your Society. The principal object
of the expedition of the Uranie was to make ob-
servations calculated to determine the figure of
the earth and the intensity of the magnetic
powers ; and, at the same time, to increase the
collections of Natural History, and to add Deis
hydrographic drawings to those possessed by the
Depot of Charts and Plans of the Navy.—That
object has been attained, to the satisfaction of the
King, in the space of four years. M. de Frey-
cinet returned to Havre on the 13th of Novem-
ber, 1820. On the 22d of August, 1822, M.
Duperrey set sail from Toulon. After visiting
the Malourine Isles, the coasts of Chili and Peru
the dangerous Archipelago, and different other
groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, New
Ireland; the Moluccas, New Holland, and
New Zealand, the Archipelago of the Caro-
linas, Java, and the Islands of France and Bour-
bon, he returned to Marseilles on the 24th of
April, 1825, having performed a voyage of cir-
cumnavigation which will have eminently contri-
buted to th© improvement of geography, and the
physical and natural sciences. This voyage had
not terminated, when, on the 22d of March,
1824, Baron Bouganville, the son of the cele-
brated navigator of that name, set out from Brest,
and arrived at the Isle of Bourbon, on the 19th
of May, traversed successively India, the Philli-
pines, China, Cochin China, the islands of the
Sound, New Holland, Chili, and Brazil ; veri-
fied the positions of a great number of interest-
ing points ; explored in the sea of China large
islands which had not yet been visited, and re-
turned to Brest on the 23d of June, 1826,
with rich collections of different objects of Na-
tural History, destined for the Museum. While
these scientific sailors subjected to their investi-
gations-the most distant-latitudes, others, no less
, skilful, devoted themselves, with equal zeal and
devotion, to similar operations in nearer seas, and
as it were under our eyes, In 1820, the hydro-
graphical engineers of the navy terminated, tinder
the direction of M. Bea utemp si
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ber,al
of the Academy of Sciences and of Geo-
graphy, the examination of the coasts of France,
whiclaishcaodny. been commenced
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ment ofli ydr ograp hi science.cal
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auttiter,
Mediterranean, the Adriatic, the Sea of Mar-
inora, and the Black Sea, terminated in 1820
that work, which is one of the most remarkable
ever undertaken by the French Marine. At this
last period Captain Bell began, and finished
since then, with the same success, that for the
coasts of Corsica which M. Gautier had per-
formed in the Mediterranean. Rear-Admiral
Baron Raussin himself, some months since, pre-
sented the Society with his magnificent work, en-
titled, " The Pilot of Brazil ; or, a description
of the Coast of South America, from the Isle of
oenrTta'illeiesceeib
St. Catherine to that of Marantrao."
ex-
amination, which took place in 1819 and 1820,
was preceded, in 1817 and 1818, by that of the
Western Coasts of Africa, by the same officer,
from Cape Bojador to Mount Sonzos. Such
works recommended themselves by themselves,
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and scientific men of whom I have just spoken.
He was one of the ()divers on the expedition of
Entrecastcux, sent in 1791, in search of La
Perouse, whom we still seek. What touching
emotions shall We feel, as Frenchmen and mem-
bers of the ,Society,
on learning, at least, how
that greatexpedition was interrupted! Happy if
we s,taouid be allowed to learn it from the mouth
of some of those who had survived that cruel
Catastrophe ; to see them, after so long an exile,
restored to their country and to their King, that
worthy brother of Louis the Sixteenth, who
traced with his august hand, the instructions-of
La Perouis'e ; to that King, whose whole thoughts
have for their objects the happiness of his people
and the glory of France—who honours and pro-
tects the sciences—and who has acquired new
claims on our profound gratitude, in consecrat-
ing, by a decree, dated this day, of which I am
happy to bring you a copy, the existence of the
Society of Geography, and by giving to its
statutes the Royal sanction, to which you attach
so much value. Pursue, Gentlemen, the career
which you have opened before you with such
noble disinterestedness. Your first steps have
been marked by encouraging success—still more
brilliant awaits you ; and your excellent institu-
tion, reposing henceforward on a solid and
durable foundation, will become one of the most
Useful establishments of which France can boast."

M. Freycinet then communicated to the So-
ciety an interesting letter, from MM.. Quoy and
Gaymard, the Naturalists of the expedition under
Captain D'Urville, in the Astrolabe. After
some other routine business, eulogiums were
pronounced, by M. Larenaudiere, on the Mar-
quis de la Place, who was one of the founders of
the Geographical Society—on M. Malte Brun,
and on J. Jacotin. Twenty new members were
elecSed, and among them several foreigners. The
Society then broke up.