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CEYLON BRANCH— ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



POSTSCRIPT. 



Since the foregoing was put to Press, the following letter 

 from the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society announcing 

 the formal incorporation of the Ceylon Branch therewith, 

 has been received. 



THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



14, Grafton Street, Bond Street, 

 London, \\th February 1856. 



Sir, 



I am directed by the Council of ;the Royal Asiatic 

 Society, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th 

 December ; and to transmit for the use of 

 Nos. I to 14 inclu- your Society, a set of this Society's Jour- 

 No.lt ^No^Q nals as stated in the Margin, for which 



part l, were for- no charge will be made. The future 



warded in October ° 



last. numbers of the Journal will henceforward 



be regularly transmitted. Should any 

 individual Members desire to have copies for their own use, 

 you will be pleased to furnish the names of the parties, with a 

 reference, or remittance of the aggregate sum, for which an 

 acknowledgement will be sent on receipt. The payment 

 may be made on your receipt of the supply. 



I have much pleasure in communicating to you the unani- 

 mous vote of a Special General Meeting held on the 7th 

 instant, for the admission of the Ceylon Asiatic Society to 

 be a Branch of this Society, under the designation of the 

 Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



At the same Meeting some alterations were made in the 

 Society's Regulations, which, as soon as printed, will be 



