New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-08
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHJCAL AND STA
TISTICdL SOCIETY

regular meeting o. this Society was held lat even
ing al the New-York Uniyersity-Mr. Gao. BANCROFT
in the Chair.
Aner the reading and approval OF the minutes Of
the preceding meeting Messrs. Wet nora, COlvert
am Cole we're chosen members, and Mr.. SomerNile
OF England Mr.. S. 5 Cornell and Mr. Gilman were
cboson corresponding members.
The Treasurer reported the total income OF The past
YEAR II 81 736 So; expenditure e. 10 3l-'eav.ng
bsarce ID bts hands Of so 81.
The CHAIRMAN Acknowledged dOla.l )ns iton the
Smtfsou Isn Institute. viz The Report Of The Snit1-
solian Institute; List OF Members. Sc The thsnk5
of The Society returned 20 ne secretary OF 100
SmlsOlItl IDsttutr, 90 also 10 major "a !Oi Ae-
pert ou tie Amazon valley.
The following fes0ldu1L was proposed to petition
Cover mens send cat PrJys T TOR Tbs pax pose of
n.skirg search for d. Kan-, who rs b-ol ~ loas
otlayeo IN the Arctic regions:
Eossd Tat The Pes.d, Of the Society 10 70
rrste fiop bs himself tnt The o'hs- On
rrstur tous.s instruct aud empower t rcre az Of the
I.ii,r s'oo-nip fully ocersd msaosi anf equipped
fr,rc.fry TO -seh ,eheve Corlsndrr Kane and
Tsrty detailed BY th- Ns'y 70 va '2uns OF
ths Ache circle Gad Whs sosencei poolscd beyond ho
Mr. BoRpFtL thu DIRE = attenti n % tn ficency
Of the io-saing appratus Ca tbo coast OF Ns"-Jor-
sey.
The office of President WA rendered to NJ. B,S-
oRoFT, but be Geciued, on thg ground tha, some
other emlcT WIS better en'id@d 70 tue position.
TIE neetify then proceeded % elect tne different
officers b. ballot. The following were eventually
cbDsen: President, Francis Il Hawk; Wee Pre-
,ileuts Henry GriLLen N. Ngury, Alexander w.
Bradford; Treasurer Ridley " iftsi Recording Sec
tetary, Archibald Russell, Domes'i5 Core pond,ag
Sec,etary II V. Poor, Foreign Cor. SEC, ) D8W,tt
Bioodgoof; Enr5rian, n. Dudley BearX; Tru'tees,
J H. Brodboad. n. l.. P.erreDOnt, Hiram Barry,
John D. Jones, Car1ri5se L'yiD -,,pn, Joh1 jay, w.
c. WadGsll. Marshall L-f,r,s K. H. w. Wthaus.
The foilSNing resolutions were then unanimously
az opted
Of NJ Bspcfcft President haPoy u anticipate
tnnstiop Of Liz sympathy sod valuable cyoJrauon a.
is.ie Thai the tion 6eorr, Bancroft, hsvas deensd.
Reelection President Of the American ogaph al md S,
brs In Their behalf and anAum1uy tender theT
sbe d1nded and vey ssa.etoy manner 10 which 10
ltstr e.ilfd oveT their Deliberations
Mr.. KoHL then proceeded TO read an interesting
saper on & series of maps drawn from tue earliest
tmes and she wed the various sources from which h
hsd obtare ed the copies which hs Introduced to tho
notice Of the Society lie ssid that his ate ltiOn al
been attracted the subject vi maps rs. IN hs Owa
country bui that he had NOT BEEN tple % complete
hi ccli,ctun without visiting France e.. tIt AMI
Autr;Ca. lie tg6cef the various geOlr7 phi al dis
c,vtri.s showing bow tfey 1af affected the ifea' u
the peo le by tho way in which the maps wors ms To-
particularly referring TO tho TACT that rhen Jsoin
was frs, Discovered Il wGs called ESQ and gis sup
posed 10 be- Continent lying between ths Old AMI
Nev NoIlds.
The FIRST map Of America was made By a com
pauiou Of COlumbus-it IL now ~ SPAN. lie sNf;
have copeo nearly sll those Of he Sixteenth and
some of those of the Seventeenth Century. s. are
r,ir,ed sBd Drawn by the md and brush for the kings
Of Spain. England or France, and others are even
priued-beiDg joined TO various collections OF maps.
could entertain you long Tina by p'sining
the alterations that the lines Of these maps tve
undergone from time 10 rme, and showing how even
the errors III az were made By tbs hfst map-makers
have tended 10 increase our Ogr7phica knowledge.
You win see, too by examining the maps nov in
troduce % yOgr notice, that America sppeGrs under
% many probably, ~ twenty names, and IS limos,
ALWAYS in the earlier ones, Connected elth Asia.
MANY OF the earliest meps OF America are drawn on
bark COtto0 and Other substances, by the ln.iGnsi
for The earlier yOyBgers always referred 70 the nsuyes
for geographical information Many OF these s.lll
exist Even our Franklin Peuys and McCl1res
sti look TO the native E-quimaux for this kind Of in
formation ard paTts of our country arr still patio
Cd the maps Of The present day from the dea dptOns
and drasngs of lndIans-pGrticGlAry the sources OF
soue Of some of our rivers.
M KOHL IN the course Of HE paper. introduced
many hundreds OF maps VII ch he lad copied n d-i-
ferent countries.
NrBAScRoFT said that, considering the Importance
Of the early geographical history Of our country be-
rroposed n at TIE Society should meet next Thgrdsy
In der more csrfuly 70 examine the msps and heir
At greater length tie highly interesting ooservaon3
tbat Mr.. kohl had 10 make. hr Barcro.. declared
himself surprised a. ihe beauty and Arrangement OF
the maps and said that II Of the most inter
estiDg sources Of study that had been introduced 10
liz Dot &C for some time.
A vote Of thanks wss then moved 70 Mr.. b bhl AMI
carried unanim yusly. The nesting then sd-
iourued ~ Thursday, fth December.
~ NJ, Rrvr.f-5~t X I J.