No. 57.— 1906.] 



PROCEEDINGS. 



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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 Colombo Museum, March 16, 1906. 



Present : 



His Excellency Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., Patron, in 

 the Chair, 



The Hon. Mr. J. Ferguson, C.M.G., President. 



Mr. R. G. Anthonisz. 

 Mr. T. P. Attygalle, J.P. 

 A. J. Chalmers, M.D., F.R.C.S. 

 Mr. Peter de Abrew. 

 Mr. F. J. de Mel, M.A., LL.B. 

 Mr. W. A. de Silva, J.P. 

 Dr. W. H. de Silva, F.R.C.S. 

 Mr. S. de Silva, Gate Mudaliyar. 

 Mr. C. M. Fernando, M. A., LL.M. 

 Mr. C. J. M. Gordon, M.A. 

 Mr. A. M. Gunasekera, Muda- 

 liyar. 



Mr. I. Gunawardena, Mudaliyar. 



Mr. J. C. Hall. 

 Dr. C. A. Hew&vitarana. 

 Mr. D. B. Jayatilaka, B.A. 

 Sir W. W. Mitchell, Kt., 

 C.M.G. 



Hon. Mr. S. C. Obeyesekere. 

 Mr. E. W. Perera, Advocate. 

 V. R. Saravanamuttu, M.D. 

 Mr. P. D. Warren, F.R.G.S. 

 Mr. G. E. S. S. Weerakoon, 



Mudaliyar. 

 A. Willey, M.A.,D.Sc., F.R.S. 



Mr. R. H. Ferguson, B.A., Honorary Treasurer. 



Mr. J. Harward, M.A., and Mr. G. A. Joseph, 

 Honorary Secretaries. 



Visitors : Fourteen ladies and twenty -seven gentlemen. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of last General Meeting held 

 on December 13, 1905. 



2. The Honorary Secretary announced the election of the 

 following Members since the last General Meeting : — Mr. H. W. 

 Codrington, B.A., C.C.S., and Mr. P. D. Warren, F.R.G.S. 



3. Dr. A. Willey, F.R.S. , Director of the Colombo Museum, 

 exhibited certain specimens of birds peculiar to Ceylon, which 

 were mounted in groups of pairs in artistic fashion. They com- 

 prised the Red -faced Mal-kohd, Ceylon Blackbird (Merula Kin- 

 nisi), Spotted Thrush, Ceylon Magpie (Gissa Ornata), wrongly 



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