(IT The issue of this Number has been delayed in 

 the hope of being able to close it with the Paper " On 

 the construction of Zoological Tables, with a Tabular 

 Diagnosis of the Snakes of Ceylon," by the Director of 

 the Colombo Museum. Mr. Haly finally decided to 

 withdraw his Paper (partly printed) for the present, 

 owing to typographical difficulties connected with the 

 setting up of the Explanatory Table. 



H. C. P. Bell, 

 Hon. Sec. 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1888. 



VOLUME X. 



No. 36. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY. 



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

 Religion, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the present and former 

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

 Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology." 



COLOMBO: 



H. C. COTTLE, ACTING GOVERNMENT 



1890. 



