xxi. 



4. — That Mr. Hawkins be requested to communicate to Mr. 

 Barnes this Society's thankful acceptance of his collection of Lepidop- 

 tera, and that Mr. F. M. Mackwood be requested to make arrange- 

 ments for its preservation. 



5. ' — That the Secretary be requested to make a commencement 

 of printing the next number of the Journal, by placing the continuation 

 of Mr. James D'Alwis's paper on the Origin of the Sinhalese Lan- 

 guage, in the Printer's hands. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society : — 



Lieut. Woodward, u. e., Captain D. Graham, Messrs. Becket, C. 

 De Saram, S- W.Foulkes, Rhys Davids, E. L. Koch, L. Wi- 

 jesinhe Mudaliyar, Ratnapura ; H. Dias, W. R. Robertson, 

 Percy H. Alven, W. J. W. Heath, and the Rev. H. 

 Per era. 



6. — That Lieut. Woodward be requested to undertake the office 

 of Secretary. 



Several members having expressed their regret that the custom 

 of holding Evening Meetings or Conversaziones had been relinquished, 

 Mr. Lorenz proposed that a Conversazione in connection with this 

 Society should be held at his house at 8 o'clock on the evening of 

 Friday, February 22nd, which proposition was unanimously agreed to. 



A suggestion having been made, that some persons were likely to 

 be deterred from attending the Society's Conversaziones by an idea 

 that none but subjects connected with Oriental Literature were admis- 

 sible for discussion in them, the sense of the meeting appeared to be 

 that, in order to make the Evening meetings more attractive, any subject 

 connected with general literature, with science, or with art, should be 

 considered to be admissible. 



Mr. Blake promised to read to the Meeting at Mr. Lorenz's an 

 unpublished letter from the celebrated Robert Knox, which he had 

 found amongst the Archives in the Colonial Secretary's Office. 



