CEYLON BRANCH— BOY AL ASIATIC SOCIETY. ill. 



KEPOET 



OF THE 



COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT 

 Fob 1845. 



Your Committee have to report favorably of the Society's 

 progress during the past year, which may be considered the 

 first of its existence. The number of new members who 

 have joined, the interest shewn by various other literary 

 Societies in its progress, and the many valuable literary con- 

 tributions which the Society has received during the past 

 year from many of its members — all lead your Committee to 

 hope, that in future years the Society will proceed as favor- 

 ably from youth to maturity, as it has done from infancy to 

 youth. 



Your Committee anticipate that the incorporation of your 

 Society with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, has already taken place, and they now only wait for 

 a communication from London to that effect.- — (See Corres- 

 pondence A.) Arrangements have been made for the publi- 

 cation of the Society's Journal, which it is hoped will in 

 future appear regularly every half-year, or more frequently 

 should sufficient materials be presented • and while noticing 

 this your Committee would again express their sense of the 

 liberality of the local Government, in printing the papers of 

 the Society and affording it accommodation for its meetings* 



To the Bengal Asiatic Society your Committee have pre- 

 sented, on the part of your Society, their best thanks for the 

 donation made by it of a series of the Asiatic Researches, 

 and a complete set of the Journal of that Society. These 

 books form a very valuable accession to your Society's 

 Library.— (See Correspondence B.) 



