No. 45. — 1894.] PROCEEDINGS. 



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The Council have the melancholy duty of recording the loss which 

 the Society has sustained by the death of four of its Members : — 

 Col. F. C. H. Clarke, r.a., cm.g., Vice-President ; Dr. F. A. Vanders- 

 magt, Mr. William Goonetilleke, and Mr. M. S. Crawford, CCS. 



By the death of Col. Clarke the Society has lost one who took a 

 keen interest in its proceedings, and whose intellectual gifts were of 

 an unusually high order. 



Mr. William Goonetilleke, though for many years a Member of the 

 Society, took little part in its proceedings, but his loss is one which 

 must be felt most keenly by all who take an interest in Oriental 

 scholarship and research. His brilliant natural gifts, enlarged as 

 they were by years of unceasing study, had earned for him a high 

 reputation in Europe as well as in the East. 



The Council regret to have to call the attention of the Society 

 to the number of Members who owe heavy arrears of subscriptions. 

 In some of these cases they have been obliged to issue a final notice 

 that, unless the arrears are paid before a certain date, the Members' 

 names will be removed from the Society's list. 



Library. 



The Library has been enriched during the past year by the addition 

 of 232 volumes, pamphlets, and periodicals. The works added to 

 the collection have been acquired chiefly by the exchange of publica- 

 tions with Societies and learned Institutions in Europe and America. 



The Society has gratefully to acknowledge the substantial additions 

 that continue to be made to the Library by the Right Hon. the Secre- 

 tary of State in Council for India. Several works of reference, 

 directories, handbooks, &c, referring to India have been presented 

 during the past year. 



The Library is also indebted to the following donors for additions 

 to its collection, viz.: — The Ceylon Government ; the Lieut. -Governor 

 of Bengal, James Burgess, f.r.g.s., &c. ; the Lord Bishop of Colombo ; 

 the Colombo Museum Committee ; the Hon. P. Coomaraswamy ; 

 Messrs. F. H. M. Corbet, J. M. Perera, and G. A. Joseph. 



The book cases are rapidly filling up again, and the need of greater 

 accommodation for the books has been felt. The Library wants a 

 room large enough to allow of expansion, and to permit of a rational 

 classification of the books upon the shelves. An extension of the 

 building will alone meet the emergency ; and the Society therefore 

 welcome the steps taken by the Government to provide, in the near 

 future, premises sufficient for all requirements. 



Catalogue. 



A simple catalogue (as suggested in the last Annual Report) has 

 been begun, and it is hoped will be completed and printed by 

 the end of 1894. The work of cataloguing has been considerably 

 delayed owing to the non-return of books by Members. Special 

 requisitions (on the authority of the Council) for their return were 

 issued, but in some cases have not been noticed. Members are 

 requested to return any books in their possession called for, in order 

 that the work of cataloguing may be pushed on. 



Journals. 



The Society has published during the year the following numbers 

 of its Journal, viz. :■— Vol. XII., No. 43, 1892, containing the following 



