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



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Colombo Museum, Library, Tuesday, February 14, 1893. 



Present : 



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



Mr. F. H. M. Corbet. Dr. Lisboa Pinto. 



Mr. Staniforth Green. Mr. F. C. Koles. 



Mr. J. A. Henderson. Dr. W. G. Vandort. 

 Mr. E. F. Hopkins, CCS. 



Mr. G. A. Joseph, Acting Honorary Secretary. 



Visitors : — Six gentlemen. 



Business. 



1. At the request of the President, Mr. Joseph acted as Secretary. 



2. Read and confirmed Minutes of Meeting held on November 4,1892. 



3. It was announced that the following gentlemen had been elected 

 Resident Members : — Messrs, G. A. Joseph, J. Harward, and N. Mendis, 

 Mudaliyar. 



4. Mr. Joseph read the following Annual Report of the Council 

 for 1892 :— 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1892. 



The Council of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 

 have the honour to submit to this Meeting their Annual Report for 

 the year 1892. 



Meetings and Papers. 



There were four General Meetings of the Society held during the 

 year, and five Papers read. The first Meeting, which was the Annual 

 General Meeting of the year, was held on the 19th of March last. 

 After the Annual Report bad been read and adopted and the Office- 

 Bearers for the year elected, the President of the Society, the Lord 

 Bishop of Colombo, reviving a much appreciated practice, delivered 

 an address on " The Verification of the Ancient Chronicles and His- 

 tories of Ceylon.'' The President was followed by Mr. F. Moddei 

 with a Paper " On Sinhalese Weights and Measures." 



The second Meeting was held on the 9th of August, when three 

 Papers were read, one by the Lord Bishop of Colombo on " The Identi- 

 fication of Sirivaddhanapura f of the Mahawansa, chapter LXXXV." ; 

 another on " Ritigala " in the North-Central Province, contributed by 

 Mr. J. B. M. Ridout ; and the third by Mr. F. Lewis, entitled 

 " Notes on the Nidification of ChrysopKlegma Xanthoderus (yellow 

 naped woodpecker). 



The third Meeting was held on the 10th of October last, when a 

 Paper contributed by Mr. L. Nell on " The Ethnology of Ceylon " 

 was read. This Paper gave rise to much discussion, and it was thought 

 advisable to adjourn the Meeting for another day to permit Members 

 who wished to continue the discussion an opportunity of so doing. 



The Meeting was accordingly postponed to the 4th of November, 

 when a prolonged discussion took place. 



