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PROCEEDINGS, 1861. 



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Vice-Presidents : 



The Rev. D. J. Gogerly. 

 The Rev. B. Boake. 



Secretaries : 



Monsieur P. Grimblot. 



J. Capper, Esq. 



Treasurer : 



C. A. LORENZ, Esq. 



Librarian : 



Monsieur P. Grimblot. 



Committee : 



C. P. Layard, Esq. 



( 'olonel OUVRY. 



J. F. Dickson, Esq. 



B. Moss, Esq. 



W. C. Ondaatjie, Esq. 



P. COOMARASAMY, Esq. 



J. D'Alwis, Esq. 

 R. Dawson, Esq. 

 Rev. J. T HURST AN. 



The following gentlemen were then proposed, and after a ballot, declared 

 duly elected Members of the Society : — 



Dr. R. Dane, P.M.O. 

 G. B. Capper, Esq. 



The Proceedings were terminated by a vote of thanks to the Chairman. 



LETTERS FROM SIR J. E. TENNENT AND DR. BUIST, TO 

 THE " ATHENiEUM," RELATIVE TO THE FRESH 

 WATER WELLS OF JAFFNA. 



Allahabad, N. IV. Province, 

 June 10, 1860. 



In this out-of-the-way quarter of the world, where Ave are only 

 beginning to replace the books the mutineers burned, and are drawing 

 cautiously on our bookseller, in case a catastrophe of the like kind 

 should occur again, I trust that you will pardon me for turning to a 

 work reviewed in your pages eight months ago, — Sir Emerson Tennent's 

 "Ceylon," — which I have not been able to peruse, and of which I can 

 only speak from the extracts I have read in the Athenasum and the 

 Edinburgh Review, both of October. But the few points I desire to 

 take up are of general and permanent interest, and have hitherto, as it 

 seems to me, not been noticed in the manner they deserve. In both the 

 reviews referred to, I find the following notice of the musical sounds 



