this subject, you will find recorded in its last annual your character and exertions are held by the Royal not the least important. The opinion of the Council on " I trust that these proofs of the respect in which instructed to express to you, the high sense which the " I have the honor to be, Asiatic Society will reach you in safety, and that the you are entitled by the regulations of the Society. donation, which I have the pleasure to forward, I am so by a direct communication from you. " Sir, Your most obedient ponding member of the Society, and I have the honor communications, of which the Lushington Bridge is improvements in the island of Sivasamoodrum and its conduct, in effecting as you have done such extensive election, together with a copy of the part of the Trans- report to the members of the Society, of which I Society entertains of your liberal and disinterested account of the Island and bridges of Sivasamoodrum, "Very humble servant, Society may have the pleasure to learn they have done and twenty-five extra copies of this account, to which actions of the Society which contains your interesting enclose a copy. You will observe from this report, to transmit by this opportunity your Diploma of that you had been proposed for election as a corres- 144 APPENDIX.