CAMERON, VERNEY LOVETT (1844-94). An English explorer. He was burn at Weymouth, Dorsetshire, entered the British Navy in 1857, and saw service on the east coast of Africa. In 1873 lie was sent by the Royal Geographical So ciety on a second expedition to relieve Living stone. In August Lieutenant Cameron met Liv ingstone's servants bearing their master's body to the coast. Cameron resolved to push on, and was the first European to cross tropical Africa from east to west, reaching the Atlantic in No vember, 1875. He found some of Livingstone's papers and a map, explored the southern half of Lake Tanganyika, and learned that the Lualaba was really the Upper Congo. (ln his return Ile received many honors, including a D.C.L. from Oxford. He was also chosen to membership in more than thirty scientific societies. He was promoted to commander in the navy. He pub lished an account of his travels under the title Across Africa (2 vols., 1876, 2d ed., 1885). In
1578-79 he traveled in Asiatic Turkey and on his return published Our •alun- Highway (ISSO), advocating a railway front Tripoli to India. In IS 2, in company with Sir Richard Burton, he visited the African Gold Coast in search of gold.
Followers of Richard Cameron (q.v.). of Scotland; officially known as Reformed Presbyterians. (See PRESBYTE RIANISM.) They are moderate Calvinists, and assert that the will of man is determined only by the practical judgment of the mind; that the cause of men's (loing good or evil pro ceeds from the knowledge that God infuses into them : and that God does not move the will physically, but only morally, by virtue of its dependence on the mind. This peculiar doctrine of grace and free will was adopted by many eminent teachers, who thought Calvin's doctrine too harsh.