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JOURNAL, B..A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL, XIIL 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 Colombo Museum, January 27, 1894. 

 Present : 



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



Hon. J. A. Swettenham, c.m.g., Yice-President. 



Mr. A. P. Green. I Dr. Lisboa Pinto. 



Mr. S. G. Lee. | Mr. P. Ramanathan, c.m.g. 



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



Visitors : Six gentlemen. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of Meeting held on December 2, 1893. 



2. Read the following Annual Report for 1893, viz. : — 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1893. 



The Council of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 

 have the honour to lay before this Meeting the Annual Report for the 

 year 1893. 



Meetings. 



Five General Meetings of this Society have been held during the 

 year. The following is a list of the Papers read : — 



(1) " The Nidification of Sturnornis senex (White-headed Starling) 



and Cissa ornata (Ceylon Blue Jay)," by Mr. F. Lewis. 



(2) " Notes on Knox's ' Ceylon' in its Literary Aspect," by Mr. 



H. White, c.c.s. 



(3) " Kurunegala Vistaraya, with Notes on Kurunegala, Ancient and 



Modern," by Mr. F. H. Modder. 



(4) " The Epic of Parakrama," by the Lord Bishop of Colombo, 



President. 



(5) A Statement by Mr. G. Wall, Yice-President, with regard 



to the continuation of his series of Papers on the " Ancient 

 Industries of Ceylon." 



(6) " Chilappatikaram," by the Hon. P. Coomaraswamy. 



(7) " Ancient Cities and Temples in the Kurunegala District : 



Yapahuwa," by Mr. F. H. Modder. 



Members. 



The number of Members of the Society is now 200. Of these, 7 

 are Honorary Members, 17 are Life Members, and 176 are Ordinary 

 Members. 



During the year 1893 nine Ordinary Members were elected, viz., 

 Messrs. J. Harward, G. A. Joseph, N. Mendis Mudaliyar, E. Booth, 

 T. B. Pohath, A. M. Perera, O. Collette, S G. Lee, and J. E. Pohath. 



The following seven Members have resigned, viz., Rev. J. Scott, 

 Yen. E. F. Miller, Messrs. W. van Langenberg, H. Bois, and H. 

 Fraser, Miss Fredoux and the Hon. R. Reid, c.c.s. 



