No. 46.— 1895.] 



PROCEEDINGS. 



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COUNCIL MEETING. 



Colombo Museum, October 15, 1895. 

 Present : 



The Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of Colombo, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. M Mack wood. ] Dr. W. G. Vandort. 

 Mr. F. C. Roles, Honorary Treasurer. 

 Mr. J. Harward and Mr. G. A. Joseph, Honorary Secretaries. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of last Meeting held on Tuesday, 

 September 24, 1895. 



2. Mr. Harward informed the Council that the Government Printer 

 had been communicated with regarding the question of the extra 

 charge of 30 per cent, added to the actual cost of printing done for 

 the Society. The Society had hitherto been charged for actual cost 

 of printing and paper only. 



Mr. Harward added that the correspondence bearing on the circum- 

 stances and conditions under which the Society came originally to 

 have its publications printed at the Government Press was being 

 looked up with a view to Government being addressed on the subject. 



3. Laid on the table the following Circulars :■ — 



(a) No. 233 of September 29, 1895, containing a Paper on 



" Ridi Yihara," being a continuation of the series of 

 Papers on " Ancient Cities and Temples in the 

 Kurunegala District," by Mr. F. Modder, referred 

 to Mr. H. C. P. Bell for his opinion. 



(b) No. 234 of September 29, 1895, containing a Paper on 



" Panduas Nuwara," being a continuation of the series 

 of Papers on " Ancient Cities and Temples in the 

 Kurunegala District," by Mr. F. Modder, referred 

 to Mr. H. C. P. Bell for his opinion. 



Resolved, — That the Council approve of Mr. Bell's recommendation 

 that the Papers be accepted and read at any Meeting or Meetings 

 of the Society to be hereafter fixed, and that they be printed in the 

 Society's Journal. 



4. Laid on the table a Paper entitled " The Portuguese Expeditions 

 under Baretro and De Castro to the Court of Kandy (1549-50 a.d.)," 

 by Mr. C. M. Fernando, referred to Mr. D. W. Ferguson for his 

 opinion. 



Resolved, in view of Mr. Ferguson's remarks, that it be laid aside 

 for the present and the writer be informed. 



5. Laid on the table a letter from Mr. W. P. Ranasinha regarding 

 Mr. T. B. Pohath's Paper entitled " How the last King of Kandy was 

 captured by the British." 



