ANNUAL EEPOET. Xlli 



The Council of the Society desires to offer its sincere thanks 

 to the Government for this privilege, and also in no less degree to 

 Mr. Noeonha, the Superintendent of the Government Printing 

 Department, and a Member of the Society, who has given his 

 valuable assistance in printing the Journals without any remuner- 

 ation whatever. 



The Meetings of the Council during the year 1SS0 were 

 frequent, but the general meetings, as was anticipated, were held 

 at irregular, and, latterly, at distant intervals. The explanation 

 of this lies in the fact that, whereas a large number of MSS. 

 were offered to the Council in the first year of the Society's exist- 

 ence, the contributions have latterly become much less numerous. 

 The Council trusts, however, that the sixth number of the Journal, 

 a proof of the greater portion of which will be open for inspection 

 to-night, and which will be shortly issued, will prove of equal 

 interest with its predecessors ; and it is also hoped that this year, 

 the contributions will be sufficiently numerous to enable the mem- 

 bers to meet with more regularity. 



The fourth number of the Journal ( nominally for January 

 1880), did not appear till May, but the fifth number — the first printed 

 at the Government Press — was issued at the end of July, and the 

 sixth will only now be delayed to give time for the printing of 

 some photographs to illustrate the President's paper on the Euins 

 of the Temple of Boro Budur. 



It is very encouraging to be able to report the increased 

 recognition of the existence of the Society. The Straits Asiatic 

 Society now exchanges its publications with learned Societies, it 

 may almost be said, in all parts of the civilised world, and besides 

 the fact that the work here is thus given the widest circulation,, 

 the very interesting Journals and proceedings of those Societies in 

 correspondence with it will, in time, form a valuable Library. 



The Council regrets to have to report that as yet there is no 

 available information to give regarding the new map of the Malay 

 Peninsula, which is being published under the auspices of this 

 Society. The original tracing has been in the hands of the litho- 



