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'''Verney Lovett Cameron'''
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=== House Notes ===
1876.04.11 Proposed by Mr Hyde Clarke & seconded by Mr Tylor that an address of congratulation to Lieut. Cameron be sent<br /><br />proposed 1876.05.09<br /><br />1876.05.09 the President announced that there would not be the usual meeting at the rooms of the Institute on May 23, but in lieu of it Lieut. Cameron CBRN would read a communication on the anthropology of Central Africa, by permission at the Theatre of the Royal School of Mines, Jermyn Street at 8.30 pm on that date. Tickets would be sent to Members who were requested to notify if unable to attend, in order that tickets for Member’s friends might be issued<br /><br />death noted in report of the council for 1894
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Verney Lovett Cameron (1 July 1844 – 24 March 1894) was an English traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea<br />He was killed, near Leighton Buzzard, by a fall from horseback when returning from hunting in 1894.<br /><br />A naval officer and explorer, born in Dorset. He joined the Navy in 1857, and served in the Abyssinian Campaign of 1868, and then on the East Coast anti-slavery squadron. While still a lieutenant, he volunteered to relieve Livingstone in 1873, but discovered shortly after setting out from Zanzibar that Livingstone was already dead, so he proceeded to cross Africa instead, recovering Livingstone’s papers along the way, rounding the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, discovering the Lualaba River on its Western flank, and eventually reaching Angola in November 1875. He was therefore the first European explorer to cross through the middle of Africa from coast to coast, a journey he described in Across Africa (1877). He was promptly promoted to Commander in July 1876. This entire initiative annoyed the RGS, who did not anticipate the considerable expenses run up by Cameron, and were reluctant to reimburse him. He corresponded with Burton, who publicly pressed the RGS to reimburse the expedition, and they later formed a close friendship. Soon after his expedition, Stanley’s dramatic journey down the Congo overshadowed his achievements. <br />Cameron later joined Burton on a gold prospecting expedition to West Africa in the early 1880s, collaborating on the book To The Gold Coast For Gold 2 vols. (1883). He had an extensive correspondence with Burton, and left an admiring reminiscence—“Going over ground which he explored, with his Lake Regions of Central Africa in my hand, I was astonished at the acuteness of his perception and the correctness of his descriptions<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />
