No. 49.— 1898.] PROCEEDINGS. 



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COUNCIL MEETING. 



Colombo Museum, September 15, 1898. 



Present : 

 Mr. Ferguson in the Chair. 



Mr. P. Coomaraswamy. 



Mr. A. Haly. 



Mr. F. C. Roles, Honorary Treasurer. 

 Mr. J. Harward, Honorary Secretary. 



Business. 



1, Read and confirmed Minutes of Council Meeting of July 4, 



2. Owing to the absence of Mr. Senathi Raja, his motion, " That 

 the General Meetings of the Society be held hereafter at 5 p.m. instead 

 of 9 p.m.," was not brought forward. 



3. The following Member was elected as a Resident Member of the 

 Society : — 



Dr. V. R. Saravanamuttu, f Dr. W. G. Vandort. 



Colonial Surgeon, recommended by ( Mr. G. A. Joseph. 



4. Laid on the table two letters from Mr. H. O. Barnard and 

 M. K. Saldin & Co., Colombo, in reply to Honorary Secretary's 

 letters with regard to the estimate for reproducing the illustrations for 

 Mr. F. H. de Yos's Paper entitled " Monumental Remains of the Dutch 

 East India Company in Ceylon." 



Resolved, — That Saldin & Co.'s estimate for lithographing the 

 plates for Mr. de Yos's Paper be accepted, and that the question of 

 reading the Paper be decided by the President of the Society and the 

 Secretaries. 



5. Mr. Haly's offer to make a list of periodical literature in the 

 Society's Library which might be disposed of, was accepted. 



1898. 



