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APPENDIX. 



The following Resolutions were unanimously adopted. 



1st. — That the Anniversary meeting of the Society be held 

 for the future in the month of August. 



2d. — That the following gentlemen compose the Meteorological 

 Committee for the ensuing year, the Rev. J. G. Macvicar, D. D., 

 J. G. Davey Esq. M. D., J. Capper Esq. and the Rev. A. 

 Kessen L. L. D. 



3d.— That no monthly Evening Meeting be held in Febru- 

 ary, March, April and May, and that the Committee of ma- 

 nagement prepare a course of subjects for discussion, during the 

 remaining months of the year, and arrange the places of Meeting. 



4th.— That the Honble Mr. Justice Stark. 

 The Rev. J. G. Macvicar D. D. 

 The Rev. D. J. Gogerly. 



The Rev. J. D. Palm and the Secretary, form a Com- 

 mittee to prepare a Certificate of Membership. 



5th. — That Copies of the Society's Journal be presented to 

 each Library in Ceylon and forwarded to various Literary Societies. 



The Secretary then read the Report of the Committee of Ma- 

 nagement for the past year. 



Report of the Committee of Management for 1847. 



At the termination of another year of the Society's existence, your 

 Committee is happy to be enabled to speak in very encouraging 

 terms of its operations. 



The fear that was entertained at the corresponding period of last 

 year, that the removal of several Members from the Colony might 

 impair the Society's usefulness, has not been realized, while the ac- 

 cession of eleven additional Members, residing in different parts of 

 the Island holds out a fair prospect of enlarged and successful la- 

 bours. Indeed the wide sphere of its operations, deeply interesting to 

 the Physiologist, the Naturalist, and the Autiquarian; the growing 



