On the opposite page will be found a photographed copy of a diploma made and issued in due form in Jan. 1883. This is the diploma we referred to in an article in May issue under the title "The Theosophical Society." It is of course only one of many, but is introduced here to substantiate the statement in that article that the parent T.S. was active in New York as late as 1883, Abner Doubleday being then its President pro tem in the absence of Col. Olcott, the delegate to India.