Sofalah.—The History of Eastern Ethiopia, by J. dos Santos, 1607. Translated, with Notes.
Colonization.—Pamphlets on Colonization. By Sir William Alexander (afterwards Earl of Sterline), and James Hagthorpe.
Laws of the Hakluyt Society.
I. The object of this Society shall be to print, for distribution among its members, rare and valuable Voyages, Travels, Naval Expeditions, and other geographical records, from an early period to the beginning of the eighteenth century.
II. The Annual Subscription shall be One Guinea, payable in advance on the 1st January; but Subscribers shall be at liberty to compound at any time for future years by the payment of ten guineas, and they shall incur no further liability.
III. Each member of the Society, having paid his subscription, shall be entitled to a copy of every work produced by the Society, and to vote at the general meetings within the period subscribed for; and if he do not signify, before the close of a year, his wish to resign, he shall be considered as a member for the succeeding year.
IV. The management of the Society’s affairs shall be vested in a Council consisting of twenty-one members, namely, a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and seventeen ordinary members, to be elected annually; but vacancies occurring between the general meetings shall be filled up by the Council.
V. A General Meeting of the Subscribers shall be held annually, on the first Thursday in March, when two gentlemen shall be appointed to audit the Society’s accounts. The Secretary’s Report on the condition and proceedings of the Society shall be then read, and, along with the Auditor’s Report, be submitted for approval; and finally, the Meeting shall proceed to elect the Council for the ensuing year.
VI. At each Annual Election six of the old Council shall retire; and a list of the proposed new Council shall be printed for the subscribers previous to the general meeting.