We are happy to perceive that the Royal Geographical Society
has acknowledged the great services done to science by Pundit Nain Singh, the one Hindoo of our day who has made posi- tive additions to human knowledge. This brave man has for twenty years been among the boldest of explorers, having in the service of the Trigonometrical Survey tra- versed Great Thibet, fixed the position of Lhassa, surveyed the whole valley of the Tsanpo, and travelled across the plateau and back by Assam, through 1,200 miles of absolutely unexplored country, making astronomical observations all the way. His pay for this work—during which his life was in hourly danger—never exceeded 14s. a month, and he has retired on a special pension of 150 a year. The Society has now voted him its great gold medal, and if the Government sent him the Star of India, that act of justice would help to redeem some of its recent nominations.
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