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