CEYLON BRANCH ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. V 



Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, as a 

 branch thereof, may be effected, 



The Committee observe from the regulations of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society, that the Bombay Asiatic Society, and the 

 Madras Literary and Scientific Association are incorporated 

 with that Society, and the members constituted non-resident 

 members, without fas the Committee understand) any pay- 

 ment whatever to the Royal Asiatic Society, and I may here 

 express a hope that the incorporation in the present case may 

 be effected in the same way. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



&c. &c. 

 (Signed) Wm. Knighton, 



Secretary. 



R. Clarke, Esq. 



Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society. 



( Here follow the rules and regulations of the Society, 

 with a List of the Members, as given above). 



No. 2. 



THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN 

 AND IRELAND. 



14, Grafton Street, Bond Street, 



London, lAth August, 1845. 

 Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your 

 letter of the 12 th March, announcing the formation of an 

 Asiatic Society of Ceylon, and requesting to be informed on 

 what terms the incorporation of that Society may be effected, 

 so as to become a Branch of the .Royal Asiatic Society of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. 



Your letter was laid before the Council, by whom the in- 

 formation which it imparted was received with the highest 

 satisfaction. The annexation of so valuable a body, exercis- 

 ing; its influence and its energies in extending our knowledge 

 of the history and antiquities ; the inhabitants and the 



