206 Introductory Paper on Singhalese Music. 



1st. By the addition to the Society's museum of a com- 

 plete collection of Singhalese instruments, duly authenticated. 



2ndly. By the contribution to the Society's Journal, of 

 short accounts of native musical notation. 



3rdly. By the reduction to writing, of native melodies, 

 using, if necessary, a peculiar musical scale. 



The enquiry should be carried on with scientific curiosity ; 

 and the prejudices of the native should not be ridiculed, who 

 delighted with his tom-tom, stops not, to enquire the cause 

 of his enjoyment. To him " nothing is so tranquilizing as 

 sweet poetry and the gentle Udakea." 



