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1841 that were measured roughly, varied from twelve to upwards of fourteen thousand feet. Jan. 15.These were named after the eminent philosophers of the Royal Society and British Association, at whose recommendation the government was induced to send forth this expedition. I had great satisfaction in having it in my power thus to record the names of those distinguished gentlemen from whose exertions in the cause of science these discoveries resulted. Herschel, an imperishable name, rendered still more illustrious by the scientific labours and achievements of the greatest philosopher of our own time, was given to the most conspicuous of the mountains, after Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., President of the British Association; by whom, in the double capacity of Chairman of the Committee of Physics of the British Association, as well as of the Royal Society, the recommendations of those scientific bodies were communicated to Her Majesty's government. Mount Northampton was named after the Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal Society, who took a personal and active interest in promoting the great system of magnetic co-operation throughout the civilised world, and in recommending a voyage of magnetic research to the antarctic seas. Cape Roget and Cape Christie, which are formed by the terminations of Mount Herschel and Mount Lloyd, to seaward, were named after Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society, and