Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Under Secretary of State for India, The India Office, S.W. Directed by the President and Council of the Royal Society to convey to the Secretary of State for India their sincere thanks for the assistance given by the Government of India to the expeditions despatched to India to observe the recent Total Solar Eclipse. The governments of the Bombay presidency and the Central Providences gave facilities for the passage of the observers' baggage through Customs at Bombay and by their telegraphic and police arrangements at the observing stations. Would also like to convey thanks to the following gentlemen: Sir Charles Lyall, Chief Commissioner, Central Providences W A Nedham, Commissioner, Nagpur S N Chitnairs, Deputy Commissiner, Wardha A C Blenerhassett, Assistant Commissioner, Wardha E Giles, Director of Public Instruction, Bombay K R Bomanji, Collector of Salt E H Aitken, Assistant Collector of Salt F R Badar, Assistant Engineer Mechan, Assistant Engineer Damodhar Bapu Ras Patrardhan Sikander Shah Dawa, Honorary Magistrate, Kalmeshwar Gangadhar Anant Bhat, Executive Engineer Govind Goshi, Overseer Sadashi Govind Goshi, Clerk to Overseer Colonel Henry J Lugard E Lugard, Exective Engineer, Bhumdara The Surveyor-General of India Lieutenant Colonel St. G Gore, Survey of India Mayor S G Burrard, Survey of India Captain G P Lenox-Conyngham, Survey of India Lieutenant G A Beazeley, Survey of India Lieutenant H L Crosthwait, Survey of India 16 June 1898