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



(6) " Interim Report on the Operations of the Archaeological Survey 

 of Sigiriya (Third Season), 1897," by H. C. P. Bell, C.C.S., 

 Archaeological Commissioner. 



Members. 



During the past year five new Members were elected, viz., G. C. Lee, 

 H, B. Preston, J. E. Addyman, J. W. Small, and N. Balasubramanyan, 

 M.A. The Council note with satisfaction that applications continue 

 to be received for admission as Members. 



Six Members resigned, viz., J. Alexander, B. W. Bawa, S. Bois, 

 L. d'Espagnac, Dr. M. N. Gandevia, and P. E. Radley. 



The Society now has on its. roll 188 Members, including 17 Life 

 Members and 9 Honorary Members. Your Council has decided to 

 recommend that Mr. H. C. P. Bell, C.C.S., Archaeological Commissioner, 

 be appointed an Honorary Member of the Society in recognition of the 

 valuable services rendered by him for a period of seventeen years, and 

 his name will be submitted at the Annual General Meeting for election. 



The Council record with regret the death of the following 

 Members :— S. Nagalingam, Advocate, and Hugh Nevill, C.C.S., F.Z.S. 



By the death at Hyeres on April 10 of Mr. Hugh Nevill the Society 

 has been deprived of an energetic and valuable Member, and Science 

 has lost an enthusiastic worker in many fields. Mr. Nevill was an 

 indefatigable collector. He had discovered and described many new 

 species in Zoology, and had contributed many specimens to Museums. 

 His collection of birds passed to the late Marquis of Tweedale, but he 

 left a very complete collection of certain genera of shells. For some 

 years Mr. Nevill edited and published at his own cost " The Tapro- 

 banian." Mr. Nevill has left what is probably a unique collection of 

 specimens of the ancient Kandyan silver work, an art which he took 

 an active part in reviving. Mr. Nevill, from his intimacy with 

 Buddhist priests and other native scholars, had unusual facilities for 

 collecting manuscripts, and left behind a most valuable collection of 

 ancient Buddhist and Pali manuscripts. A Catalogue raisonne of these 

 was prepared for publication, and the late Dr. Rost of the India Office 

 was anxious that it should be published . The catalogue is complete : 

 Mr. Nevill took it with him in order to superintend its publication in 

 England ; but was unable to rally from the illness that had necessitated 

 his leaving Ceylon. 



Mr. Nevill joined the Society in 1865. He contributed to the 

 Society's Proceedings the following Papers : — 



(1) Description of Two Birds new to the recorded Fauna of Ceylon 



(Vol. IV., No. 14). 



(2) Description of a New Genus and Five New Species of Marine 



Univalves from the Southern Province. Ceylon (Vol. IV., 

 No. 14). 



(3) Notes on the Geological Origin of South-Western Ceylon 



(Vol. V., No. 16). 



(4) Further Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon (Vol. V., No. 16). 



(5) The Ancient Emporium of Kalah. &c, with Notes onFa-Hian's 



Account of Ceylon (Vol. VIL, No. 24). 



