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only an expression of the confidence of the Society and the gratitude 

 of the Members. 



The Treasurer also ought not to be forgotten. The office he 

 discharged was in some respects not only a burdensome one, but 

 an unpleasant one. It was, unfortunately, his duty to be reminding 

 Members of the necessity of paying their subscriptions ; and he had 

 asked him (the Chairman), thinking perhaps that there would be an 

 opportunity, of reading a lecture to less attentive and deserving 

 Members— which of course were those not present that night — to 

 say something on this point, and to ask the assistance of Members 

 of the Society to remove to some extent that part of his labours 

 which consisted in continual writing for subscriptions. Members, 

 the Secretary told him, were not in the habit of sending in subscrip- 

 tions until they had been asked once. Such were considered 

 admirable Members. The Kules of the Society provided that sub- 

 scriptions should be paid in March, without demand, and he made 

 the request that Members would give effect to it. 



4. Mr. Haeward, on behalf of the Council, moved that Mr. A. Haly, 

 Director of the Colombo Museum, be elected an Honorary Member of 

 the Society. He referred to the relations existing between the Society 

 and the Museum, and to the services which had been rendered to the 

 Society by Mr. Haly. That gentleman had many claims to be elected 

 a Member. He bad done a large amount of work for the Society in 

 the way of contributing Papers of much real scientific value. The 

 list of his Papers was as follows : — 



January 26, 1888. — Lecture " On the Characters of Ceylon Snakes." 

 Published in Yol. X. of the Society's Journal. 



January 26, 1888. — "Essay on the Construction of Zoological 

 Tables," with a Tabular Diagnosis of the Snakes of Ceylon. Pub- 

 lished in Yol. XI. 



September 30, 1891.— " A New Method of Preserving and 

 Mounting Zoological Specimens." Published in Yol. XII. 



July 7, 1894,. — " Notes on the Species and Varieties of Testudo in 

 the Colombo lluseum." Published in Vol. XIII. 



On account of these contributions, and on the ground of his 

 position as Director of the Colombo Museum, and of the services 

 he had rendered, Mr. Harward proposed that Mr. Haly be elected an 

 Honorary Member. 



Mr. C. M. Fernando seconded, remarking that it had come to him as 

 a surprise that Mr. Haly was not already an Honorary Member of the 

 Society ; and he held that the close connection between the Museum* 

 and the Society should be perpetuated in this manner. 



Mr. Haly was declared unanimously elected. 



5. Mr. Harward read the following Paper : — 



