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lishment, inevitably takes place in the issue of the Society's 

 Journal. To this cause is attributable the non-appearance 

 of a reprint of the 1st Number of the Society's Journal, 

 which had been resolved upon, and of which copies are not 

 now to be had, and the delay that has arisen in the publica- 

 tion of the 4th Number of the new series, of which only 100 

 pages have been completed. To remedy this evil, it is pro- 

 posed that the Society should engage a Compositor, to be 

 employed under Mr. Skeen upon the papers now in hand, 

 so as to enable him to issue the forthcoming Number at an 

 early date. 



Your Committee bring this subject thus prominently be- 

 fore the Society, as they have had several applications for 

 complete sets of the Journals, not only from subscribers, 

 and scientific gentlemen visiting Ceylon, but also from 

 Oriental scholars in England, which they have been un- 

 able to comply with, from the cause already stated. 



The Journal now in course of publication will contain a 

 larger amount of information than any of its predecessors, 

 and of a character interesting alike to the scholar, the anti- 

 quary, and the man of science. It will consist of papers by 

 Mr. Neitner, describing numerous new species of Ceylon 

 Coleoptera ; a Translation of certain chapters of the Mali a- 

 wanse, describing the magnificent works for Irrigation con- 

 structed by King Parakkrama Baboo, A. D., 1153-1186, 

 with an Introduction and Notes by Mr. De Zoysa ; a Transla- 

 tion of the Attanagalawansa, or the life of Sri Sangala, with an 

 Introduction and Notes by Mr. J. Alwis ; an Essay on Hindu 

 Philosophy, by M. Coomarasamy ; a Paper on the Singhalese 

 Method of computing Time, by the Rev. C. Alwis ; and a 

 Paper on Honorary Titles and Modes of Salutation among 

 the Singhalese, by Mr. J. Alwis : —to which it is pro- 

 posed to add, a Paper on Singhalese Music by Mr. L. Nell ; 

 one on new and interesting species of Nudibranchiate Mol- 



