APPENDIX. 



to prepare at leisure for entering on the topics : under present ar- 

 rangements the shortness of the notice renders this impracticable. 

 The time and place for the Meetings might remain for after adjustment. 



Your Committee have much satisfaction in laying before you the 

 Report of the Statistical Committee for the past year, and in do- 

 ing so, express a hope that it will continue its labours with unre- 

 mitting care, forming as they do, a most interesting branch of 

 our inquiries. 



No Report has been forwarded from the Meteorological Com- 

 mittee, but it may be observed that your Secretary has received 

 from Captain Pickering, R. A. several volumes relating to Magne- 

 tic observations made in Canada and elsewhere, to be availed of in 

 the event of an Observatory being hereafter erected at Colombo, 

 Of this there appears a probability at some future period. 



The Treasurer's Statement is satisfactory. 



Balance from last year £8 19 11£ 



Receipts during the present year. 41 12 6 



The payments include £l, 1, given to the Rev. Mr. Hardy to 

 purchase books in England. We have also a sum of£lO in the 

 hands of the Meteorological Committee, who have ordered instru- 

 ments to that amount, but in procuring which there appears to be 

 some delay. 



In conclusion, whilst your Committee would invite a more general 

 co -operation in the Society's proceedings, they cannot but anticipate 

 a prosperous and useful career. 



Expenditure during the year 



£50 12 5£ 

 34 5 7 



Balance in Treasurer's hand at date, 



£16 6 lOf 



A. KESSEN, L. L. D, 

 Secretary, 



