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PROCEEDINGS. 



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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Colombo Museum, February 6, 1897. 

 Present : 



The Hon. Mr. Justice Lawrie, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. P. Freiidenberg. Mr. Lewis Walker. 



Dr. L. Pinto. | Rev. F. H. de Winton. 



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

 Visitors : five gentlemen. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of General Meeting held on 

 January 9, 1897. 



2. Mr. Harward read the following — 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1896. 



The Council of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 

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

 the year 1896. 



Meetings. 



Six General Meetings of this Society have been held during the 

 year,* at which the following Papers were read and discussed, viz. : — 



(1) " Legislation in Ceylon in the early portion of the Nineteenth 



Century," by H. White, CCS. 



(2) " On a Curious Nematoid Parasite from the Stomach of a Ceylon 



Insect (Mantis religiosa)" by 0. Collett, F.R.M.S. 



(3) " How the last King of Kandy was captured by the British," by 



T. B. Pohath. 



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



II. — Ridi Vihare," by F. H. Modder. 



(5) " The Inauguration of the King in Ancient Ceylon," by 



C. M. Fernando, B.A., LL.B.Cantab., M.RA.S.Eng. 



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



III. — Panduwas Nuwara," by F. H. Modder.' 



(7) " Robert Knox's Sinhalese "Vocabulary," by D. W. Ferguson. 



(8) " Place Names of the Vanni," by J. P. Lewis, M.A., CCS. 



(9) " Reland on Malay,' Sinhalese, and Tamil." by J. P. Lewis, 



M.A., CCS. 



(10) "Note on the Fortifications of Yapahuwa," by J. Harward, 



M.A.Oxon. 



* General Meeting, January 9, 1897, at which Paper (11) was read, 

 is included in the Part for 1896, for convenience. 



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