CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIII. 



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Council Meeting : January 27, 1893 ... ... 1 



Members, election of ... ... ... 1 



Office Bearers for 1893, nomination of ... ... 2 



Paper tabled ... ... ... ... 2 



Dutch Records, correspondence regarding ... ... 2, 3 



Annual General Meeting": February 14, 1893 4 



Annual Report for 1892 ... ... ... 4 



Council Meeting : March 28, 1893 ... ... 11 



Member, election of ... ... ... 11 



Papers tabled ... ... ... ... 11 



Anuradhapura Excavation Fund, correspondence 



regarding ... ... ... ... 12-17 



Journals and Proceedings, Index to, correspondence 



regarding ... .. ... ... 17, 18 



Council Meeting : May 19, 1893 ... ... ... 19 



Annual Accounts, audit of ... ... 19 



Papers tabled ... ... ... ... 19 



Journals and Proceedings, Index to, specimen tabled ... 19 



Member, election of ... ... ... 20 



Books, Dutch, purchased ... ... ... 20 



Council Meeting : July 8, 1893 ... ... ... 20 



General Meeting* : July 10, 1893 ... ... 20 



Papers read : — 



" Notes on the Nidification of Sturnornis senex 

 (White-headed Starling) and Cissa ornata (Ceylon 



Blue Jay)," by F. Lewis ... ... ... 21 



" Notes on Knox's ' Ceylon ' in its Literary Aspect," 



by H. White, c.c.s. ... ... ... 23 



a Kurunegala Vistaraya ; with Notes on Kurunegala, 



Ancient and Modern," by F. H. Moddeb ... 35 



Council Meeting : August 5, 1893 ... ... 58 



Members, election of ... ... ... 58 



Exchanges with other Societies ... ... 58 



Rule 18 (quorum), proposed alteration of ... ... 58 



General Meeting- : August 11, 1893... ... 59 



Paper, &c, read : — 

 " The Epic of Parakrama," by the Right Rev. R. S. 



Copleston, d.d., Lord Bishop of Colombo ... 60 

 " The Ancient Industries of Ceylon," by G. Wall, 



statement regarding ... ... ... 77 



Council Meeting : September 11, 1893 ... ... 78 



Member, election of ... ... ... 78 



Hon. Col. F. C. H. Claeke, death of, proposed vote of 



condolence ... ... ... ... 78 



Books suggested for purchase ... ... ... 78 



Library Catalogue, tentative specimen of new ... 79 



