JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 

 1880. 



PART II. 



" The design of the Society is to institute and promote enquiries into 

 the History, Religion, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the 

 present and former inhabitants of the Mand, with its Geology, Miner- 

 alogy, its Climate and Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology." 



Price to Members, 1 rupee; to Non-Members, 2 rupees; 

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 before the assembly of the General Meeting at 

 which they are to be submitted. 



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WILLIAM HENRY HERBERT, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, COLOMBO, CEYLON. 



1881. 



