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



GENERAL MEETING. 



Colombo Museum, November 14, 1896. 



Present : 

 Mr. P. Freud enberg in the Chair. 



Mr. C. M. Fernando. [ Mr. L. "Walter. 



Rev. F. H. de Winton. 

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

 Visitors : one lady and eight gentlemen. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of General Meeting held on 

 October 3, 1896. 



2. The Honorary Secretary explained that a telegram had been 

 received from the Lord Bishop of Colombo in Kandy regretting 

 his inability to preside at the Meeting. 



3. On a motion proposed by Mr. Harward and seconded by Mr. 

 Joseph, Mr. Philip Freudenberg was voted to the Chair. 



4. The Chairman moved the following resolution, which was 

 seconded by the Rev. F. H. de Winton, and was unanimously passed, 

 viz. : — 



" That the Members of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society desire to place on record their regret at the death of the late 

 Dr. Henry Trimen, M.B., F.R.S., F.L.S., and to express their sense of 

 the very serious loss caused thereby, both to this Society and to the 

 scientific world." 



Mr. C. M. Fernando, in supporting the resolution, dwelt on the fact 

 that the late Dr. Trimen was the only Fellow of the Royal Society 

 who had spent his life in this Island, He was a gentleman of great 

 achievements, and he (the speaker) thought that if he had chosen to 

 cast his lot in England he might have been even more widely known. 

 But he was a modest man, and had been content to pass his life 

 in Ceylon. He had left behind work which would live for years to 

 come. As a Ceylonese he desired to express his appreciation of the 

 work done by him, and he felt that the loss they had sustained would 

 be difficult indeed to replace. 



5. Mr. Harward read the following Paper: — 



