8vo - 24.5 x 15 cm.; Pages 703 to 766. The society was founded in 1852 with the object of encouraging geographical exploration and discovery. Contents (articles only): 1 - "From Tiflis to Tibet" by Oscar T. Crosby, 2 - "Early Western Explorers and the Railroads" by Henry Gannett, 3 - "Antarctic Nomenclature" by Edwin Swift Balch, 4 - "Cultivated Rubber" by John C. Horter, 5 - "The Partition of Sakhalin", 6 - "Uniformity in Mountain Elevations" by Angelo Heilprin, 7 - "Map of the United States on a Scale of 1:1,000,000", 8 - "A Letter from Prof. W. Deecke". The paper covers are edge worn and browned. The interior is clean with some pages still uncut on the top and fore edges.