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

 March, April and May, and that the Committee of management pre- 

 pare 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 Committee 

 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 

 Management 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 acces- 

 sion of eleven additional Members, residing in different parts of the 

 Island, holds out a fair prospect of enlarged and successful labours. 

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

 Physiologist, the Naturalist, and the Antiquarian; the growing interest 

 and confidence in its stability and usefulness, along with expressions 

 of sympathy and co-operation by several kindred institutions, afford a 

 reasonable presumption, that notwithstanding the unpromising results 

 of several attempts to establish Literary and Scientific Associations in 

 Ceylon, your Society is now based on a permanent foundation. 



In accordance with a Resolution passed at the General Meeting 

 of September 1847, a correspondence has been opened with the China 

 Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, which will very probably elicit 

 interesting information respesting the character and influence of 



