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The following is a list of his principal writings : — 



(1) On some New Marine Gastropoda from the Southern Province 



of Ceylon (Journ. Ben. As. Soc, XXXY1IL, Part II.). 



(2) Descriptions of Marine Gastropoda from Ceylon (Journ. Ben. 



As. Soc, XXXYIII., Part III ). 



(3) Note on Onchidium Verruculatum, Cuv., from Ceylon (Proc. 



Ben. As. Soc, 1870). 



(4) New Marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean (Journ. Ben. 



As. Soc, XLIIL. Part II.). 



(5) New Marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean (Journ. Ben. As. 



Soc, XLIY.. Part II.). 



(6) Oriental Studies (Parts I. and II.), 2 vols. 



Library. 



The additions to the Library during the year numbered 203 volumes. 

 The acquisitions are chiefly exchanges received from Societies. The 

 Library is indebted for donations to the following : — The Trustees of 

 the Indian Museum : the Government of Bengal ; A. Mendis Gunase- 

 kera ; R. Narayan Apte ; the Government of India ; the Hon. Mr. 

 Justice Lawrie ; J. P. Lewis, CCS- ; the Government of Ceylon ; the 

 Government of Madras ; the Government of Bombay ; the Secretary 

 of State for India in Council ; H. C. P. Bell, CCS. ; the Colombo 

 Museum ; J. B. Chapman : the Director of Public Instruction, 

 Batavia ; the Geological Survey of Canada ; the Director of State 

 Archives, the Hague ; the Government of North-Western Provinces 

 and Oudh. 



For valuable exchanges received during the year the Society is 

 indebted to the following : — The American Oriental Society : the 

 Buddhist Text Society of India ; Bijdrajen tot de Taal-Land en 

 Yolkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie, the Hague ; the Royal Asiatic 

 Society of Great Britain and Ireland ; the Royal Society of Yictoria ; 

 the Geological Society of London ; the Smithsonian Institution ; K. 

 K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Yienna ; the Musee Guimet, Paris ; 

 Deutsche Morgenlandische Gessellschaft, Leipzig : Societe Imperiale 

 des Naturalistes de Moscou ; the Anthropological Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland ; the Bureau of Education, Washington ; the 

 Anthropological Society of Bombay ; the Pekin Oriental Society ; 

 the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; the Bombay Branch of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society ; the Royal Colonial Institute ; the Straits Branch 

 of the Royal Asiatic Society ; the University of Upsala ; Societe 

 Zoologique, Paris ; Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 

 Batavia ; the Royal Society of New South Wales ; the Asiatic Society 

 of Japan. 



The Council desire to draw the attention of the Government to the 

 remarks made in previous Annual Reports regarding inadequate 

 accommodation for its Library. The need of sufficient room for books 

 has been much felt for some years now — a need which Government has 

 admitted. An extension of the building will alone meet the emergency, 

 and it is hoped the long-deferred extension will be shortly undertaken. 

 The Committee of the Colombo Museum, recognizing the congestion 

 now apparent everywhere in the Library, recommended the extension 

 of the eastern wing of the Museum, and a sum of Rs. 40,000 was voted 

 for the purpose in 1891, but owing to some disagreement as regards 



