xxxih. 



8 numbers of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



The Secretary reported that 140 pages of the Journal were 

 printed, and that it would probably be completed in a month; also* 

 that the numbers of the Journal which were out of print were in 

 course of being reprinted. 



It was resolved, that a Special Committee meeting should be 

 called in a few days to consider and adopt a report of past proceedings. 



It was further resolved to call an Extraordinary General Meeting 

 of Members on the 4th December. 



A list of 10 names of gentlemen who wished to become members 

 of the Society was laid before the Committee. 



Extraordinary General Meeting, December 4, 1869. 



R. Dawson, Esq., in the Chair. 



The Rev. S. Coles, Messrs. A. M. Ferguson, W. Ferguson, 

 «J. Capper, C. A. Lorenz, Keppel Jones, S. G-renier, C. O'Halloran, 

 and W. Skeen. 



Mr. Skeen, on the motion of the Chairman, read the following 

 report : — 



The last General Meeting of the Society was held on the 29th 

 November, 1867. Committee Meetings were subsequently held on 

 the 27th May and the 1st August, 1868, and on the 23rd November, 

 1869, when it was resolved to call the present Extraordinary General 

 Meeting. 



The causes of so long a period elapsing between the last and the 

 present General Meeting are similar to those which affect kindred 

 Societies in Calcutta and elsewhere. Office Bearers and Members 

 who have leisure and ability and take an interest in promoting the 

 objects for which the Society was instituted, are removed from the 

 Island, or to distant outstations, or by the hand of death ; and a 

 period of inaction sets in ; the mere existence of the Society being 

 cared for by a few residents in Colombo whose business avocations 



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