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in a few days, when Members wishing for copies may obtain them 

 on application to the Secretary. 



The Secretary informed the Meeting, that the result of their application 

 to the Government was a grant from the Public funds of £200, to enable 

 them to form a Library and Museum ; and that the Governor has also 

 appropriated to the use of the Society two rooms at the north angle of- 

 the new public buildings, lately occupied by a portion of the Civil 

 Engineers Staff, and adjoining the Auditor-General's Offices. They 

 would, in all probability, obtain possession of their rooms early in 

 January, so that! their next General Meeting might be held in them- 

 The Society's thanks were due to Sir Charles MacCarthy, who had 

 exerted himself to secure these advantages to them. 



The following Gentlemen were then proposed as Members of the 

 Society, and, being balloted for, were declared duly elected : — 



C H Nfwtov Fsn 1 Pro P osed *>y J. De Alwis, Esq. 



C. H . JSEWroN, Esq. . . l Seconded by j Capper, Esq. 



n c< . ™^ T ,T, r , v f Proposed by Sir W. C. Rowe. 



b . Saunders, Esq. . . [ s ^ nded h y y , L Capj?JBTj Esq> 



The Hon'ble P. I. Stee- f Proposed by Sir W. C. Rowe. 

 LING. ... . . \ Seconded by C. P. Layard, Esq. 



C. DIAS> ^.,Unm,,..{^^ : lX : ^ : 



Rev. E. MooYAAET .. { ISfen^aS.^ 



n „ / Proposed by C. P. Layard, Esq. 



Dr. LLLIOTl . . . . ^ Seconded by Wm, Ee'tguson, Esq. 



. , T f Proposed by C. P. Layard, Esq. 



A. M. FERGUSON, Esq. ..( Sec J nded b ' y M . Coonmrasamy/Esq. 



r> t~\tw T T? f Proposed by C. P. Layard, Esq. 



R. V. DUNLOP, Esq. . . | Secoiided b ; Wrn . Fe^uson, Esq. 



The reading of the following Papers then took place, viz : — 

 "The Laws of the Buddhist Priesthood," by the Rev*. D. J. 

 Gogerly. 



"On the supposed identity between Nargesena and Nargajuna," 

 by James De Alwis, Esq. 



On Public Works in Ceylon, 5 ' by John Capper, Esq, 



