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EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY. | 



" The design of the Society is to institute and promote inquiries into the History, *j* 

 Beligion, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the present aad former 

 Inhabitants of the Island, with its Geology, Mineralogy, its Climate and *}* 

 *:* Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology." 



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GEORGE J. A. SKEEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. % 



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