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JOURNAL R. A. g. (CEYLON). 



[Vol. III. 



ANNIVERSARY MEETING 

 Saturday, July 6th, 1861. 



Present : 



The Rev. B. Boake, in the Chair. 

 Colonel Ouvry. ! J. Maitland, Esq 



R. V. Dunlop, Esq. 



P. COOMARASAMY, Esq. 

 N. D. SCHULTZE, Esq. 



W. C. Ondaatjie, Esq. 



Rev. J. Thurstax. 

 W. D. Rajapakse, Esq. 

 Dr. Mlsso. 



The Secretary proceeded to read the Report, as follows : — 



In submitting their Report for the past year, your Committee have 

 much pleasure in pointing attention to the steady increase in the Members 

 of the Society, and especially to the fact, that amongst those who have 

 joined during the present year, are gentlemen eminently qualified to 

 advance the objects of this Institution. 



Amongst the Papers read at the various meetings of the past season, 

 may be found some possessing more than ordinary local interest, — on 

 "Health and Disease of Ceylon"; on "Diet"; on "the District of 

 Badulla and its Products"; and on " Cinnamon,"— whilst " Hindu Philo- 

 sophy," and the " Pali Dialects " have formed the objects of other Papers. 

 The Society has received several interesting communications from the 

 Government, one of which directed attention to the increasing value of the 

 oil obtained from the " Dugong," as a substitute for Cod Liver Oil, and 

 will be found in the Appendix. 



Your Society has been placed in communication with the Curator of the 

 Public Museum of New South Wales, through Sir W. Denison, and it is 

 hoped that this may prove the means of an interchange of specimens of the 

 products of the two countries, to the advantage of both institutions. It 

 is also in communication with the Batavian Society of Arts, to which body 

 copies of the Journal have been sent. Your Committee have much pleasure 

 in noticing the receipt from the Messrs. Schlagehtweit of a portion of 

 the great illustrated work which is to record theirtravels and observations 

 in Upper India, and it has been resolved to recommend to you, that the 

 abovenamed gentlemen be elected Honorary Members of your Society, 

 with a view to mark the appreciation of their gift, and of the great labour 

 and scientific research expended in their work. 



