The Hakluyt Society.
REPORT FOR 1892.
The Travels of Pietro della Valle in India, edited by Mr. Edward Grey, in two volumes, have been issued to members during the year. More recently, a volume containing Mr. Markham’s translation of the Journal of Columbus’ First Voyage, together with documents relating to the voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte-Real, has also been issued.
Mr. Theodore Bent’s Early Voyages to the Levant, comprising the Diary of Thomas Dallam, and extracts from the Diaries of Dr. John Covel, is now ready for issue; and there will shortly appear, in two volumes, a collection of Early Voyages to Hudson’s Bay in Search of a North-West Passage, edited by Mr. Miller Christy. These contain carefully annotated transcripts of the rare first editions of the North-West Foxe and Capt. James’s Voyage.
The President has translated the Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and other documents relating to the career of the Florentine navigator, with Notes and an Introduction. The volume is now ready for the press.
Dr. Robert Brown’s Leo Africanus is also ready for press.
Among other works undertaken for our Society, Mr. Miller Christy has in hand Jens Munk’s Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, translated from the Danish. This work will complete our series of voyages to the North-West in the first half of the seventeenth century.
The Council having decided on sending a set of its publications, as complete as possible, to the Chicago Exhibition, the books (80) were suitably bound and sent to Chicago. They were placed in the British Section (Liberal Arts, Group clv), in a case specially made to hold them. This set has since been purchased by an American book collector at the price fixed, 310 dollars.
Our list of Subscribers, with a total of 289, shows an increase on previous years. The balance at the bank was £239 18s. 5d. at the end of 1892.
The following Members of Council retire: Mr. Bouverie Pusey, Mr. Ernest Satow, and Capt. Sir J. Sydney Webb; and the following gentlemen are proposed for election: Capt. Nathan, R.E., Mr. F. Ducane Godman, F.R.S., and Mr. C. P. Lucas.
Statement of the Accounts of the Hakluyt Society for the year 1892.
| Dr. | Cr. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 1. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| To Balance | 266 | 6 | 8 | By Insurance | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| ” Subscriptions and Arrears | 280 | 70 | 0 | ” Rent | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| ” Sales | 72 | 7 | 0 | ” Printing and Binding | 281 | 3 | 9 |
| ” Agent, Commission | 16 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| ” ” Gratuity for 1891 and 1892 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| ” Prætorius for Maps | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| ” Autotype Co., for Portraits of Della Valle and Admiral Button | 9 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| ” Index for Della Valle | 5 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| ” Mr. Miller Christy, for Transcriptions | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| ” Messrs. Tweedie, Law Expenses | 6 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| ” Advertising in Literary Circular | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| ” Cheque Stamps | 0 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| ” Balance | 239 | 18 | 5 | ||||
| £619 | 0 | 8 | £619 | 0 | 8 | ||
Examined and found correct,
CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM.
WORKS ISSUED BY
The Hakluyt Society.
EARLY VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN
THE LEVANT.
No. LXXXVII.
PORTRAIT OF Dr. COVEL,
From the Painting in Christ’s College, Cambridge.
James Hyatt.
EARLY
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS
IN
THE LEVANT.
I.—THE DIARY OF
MASTER THOMAS DALLAM,
1599-1600.
II.—EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARIES OF
DR. JOHN COVEL,
1670-1679.
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LEVANT COMPANY
OF TURKEY MERCHANTS.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes
BY
J. THEODORE BENT, F.S.A., F.R.G.S.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY,
4, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS, W.C.
M.DCCC.XCIII.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY CHAS. J. CLARK, 4, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS, W.C.
COUNCIL
OF
THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
Clements R. Markham, Esq., C.B., F.R.S., Pres. R.G.S., President.
Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Associé Étranger de L’Institut de France, Vice-President.
Lord Aberdare, G.C.B., F.R.S.
Vice-Admiral Lindesay Brine.
Robert Brown, Esq., M.A., Ph.D.
Miller Christy, Esq.
The Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Duff, G.C.S.I., late Pres. R.G.S.
F. Ducane Godman, Esq., F.R.S.
Albert Gray, Esq.
C. P. Lucas, Esq.
A. P. Maudslay, Esq.
Captain Nathan, R.E.
Admiral Sir E. Ommanney, C.B., F.R.S.
E. A. Petherick, Esq.
S. W. Silver, Esq.
Coutts Trotter, Esq.
Prof. E. B. Tylor, D.C.L.
Captain W. J. L. Wharton, R.N.
[Transcriber’s Note: no name, a blank space], Honorary Secretary.