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JOURNAL, R.A.S, (CEYLON). [VOL. XIV. 



GENERAL MEETING. 



Colombo Museum, February 16, 1895, 

 Present : 



The Hon. J. A. Swettenham, c.M.a., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. P. Arunachalam, CCS. 



Mr. P. Freiidenberg. 



Mr. J. Ferguson. 



Mr. CM. Fernando. 



Hon. P. Ramanathan, C.M.G. 



Sri Sumangala Terunnanse. . 

 Dr. W. G! Vandort. 

 Mr. H. van Cuylenburg. 

 Mr. T. B. Yatawara. 



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

 Visitors : five gentlemen. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of Meeting held on December 8, 

 1894. 



2. Mr. Harward said he gladly undertook the sad duty of propos- 

 ing a vote of condolence on the death of Mr. George Wall, f.l.s.,f.r.a.s., 

 Vice-President. In proposing the vote he would read the following 

 Minute passed by the Council : — 



" By the death of Mr. George Wall this Society has lost one of its 

 oldest and most prominent Members. He joined the Society in 1858, 

 and was a Vice-President from 1873 to the time of his death. He was 

 a regular attendant at Meetings, and to the part which he took in its 

 discussions the Proceedings of this Society owe much of their interest 

 and value. At the same time Mr. Wall was taking a leading part in the 

 political and mercantile life of the Island. It will be sufficient here to 

 point to the fact that he was a Member of the Legislative Council 

 in 1858-59 and 1863-64 ; Chairman of the Planters' Association, 

 1856-57, 1873, 1881, 1883-85 ; Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce 

 from 1874 to 1879 ; a prominent Member of the Ceylon League 

 during the years 1864-71 ; and Editor of the Ceylon Independent 

 from December, 1888, to the time of his death. 



" In all these positions he made his influence widely felt, and though 

 there has been much controversy as to the measures which he advocated, 

 his intellectual vigour and the generous and philanthropic character of 

 his motives have won for him the respect of all parties and races 

 in Ceylon. 



" Mr. Wall's mind was as active as it was many-sided : neither politics 

 or business impaired the freshness of his interest in all the literary and 

 scientific questions of the day. He published no works on scientific 

 subjects, but he was a Botanist of some reputation, a Fellow of the 



