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repro-bate the apathy and culpable neglect of Government, which refuses all countenance and assistance to this society, and suffers it to languish on, useless and unhonoured, when a judicious application of a moderate sum would render its operations effective and highly beneficial to the country.

In placing the Royal Geographical first on the list of ineffective and useless societies, I do so, because it ought to be next 3 words underlined: the most useful and practical society and the support of which is most important to government and the public.

If we look at its list of members, we see a goodly array of names, whose subscription must produce a large annual income -- How this is expended we fear to ask. In its annual reports, we read of no explorations having been effected by its means, no sums voted, with a few trifling exceptions,