The crowning achievement came in 1876, when the Royal Geographical Society honoured him with a gold medal as the ‘man who has added a greater amount of positive knowledge to the map of Asia than any individual of our time—Nagendra 1999.
Krunsko postignuće došlo je 1876. kada ga je Kraljevsko geografsko društvo počastilo zlatnom medaljom kao 'čovjeka koji je dao veću količinu pozitivnog znanja o karti Azije nego bilo koji pojedinac našeg vremena' - Nagendra 1999.