140 SHORT NOTES. 



of the Government for the valuable results of the action of the 

 Society with regard to the publication of 'Eastern Geography,' 

 which he edited. 



In 1888 he was again elected President, but from the time 

 of his transfer to Penang in the following year as Resident 

 Councillor, he ceased to take an active part in the work of the 

 Society. Since his retirement in 1897 Mr. Skinner was engaged 

 in writing a History of the Straits Settlements. 



C. W. S. K. 

 Singapore, 17th August, 1901. 



