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



It will shortly be desirable to have the very excellent index, so 

 ably compiled as a labour of love by Mr. J. F. W. Gore for 

 Journals I. to LXI. (that is, up to 1890), of our Journals and 

 Proceedings continued to the present time.' 



I am quite of the opinion that, so far as funds permit, the 

 Society ought to go on reprinting past J ournals that may have got 

 out of print. An accession to our membership would enable this 

 the more readily to be done. Some years ago, indeed, it was 

 proposed to ask the Bengal Royal Asiatic Society for permission 

 to reprint as part of our transactions the valuable Papers contri- 

 buted to that Society's Journal by the late George Tumour. But 

 I think we ought first to be sure of making available to new 

 Members or other purchasers all the past Journals of our own 

 Society. 



Our field of work may be narrowed by the multiplication of so 

 many different agencies — private as well as official — which take 

 up the different branches of science and study. But there is 

 plenty left for the Members to do if they only follow, in all reverence 

 and humility, the pursuit of truth and the elucidation of what 

 remains within the full scope of the Royal Asiatic Society of 

 Ceylon. 



Portuguese, Dutch, and early British Maps. 



A series of copies of Dutch maps of the whole or parts of the 

 Island and plans of the towns have lately been procured by the 

 Ceylon Government from The Hague, and are now, some of them, 

 in charge of the Surveyor-General and some of the Government 

 Archivist. I have been favoured with lists of the same, which it 

 is well to put on record : — 



List of Dutch Maps in Surveyor-GeneraV 's Office. 



927 . 



Map of Ceylon (one section only). 



929 . 



Do. 



Giant's Tank. 



930 . 



Do. 



do. 



931 . 



Do. 



do. 



932 . 



Do. 



do. 



933 . 



Do. 



do. 



934 . 



Do. 



do. 



935 . 



Do. 



Kalutara District. 



936 . 



Do. 



Salpiti Korale. 



937 . 



Do. 



Alutkuru Korale. 



938 . 



Do. 



Panadure. 



939 . 



Do. 



Trincomalee District. 



1,014 . 



Do. 



Trincomalee. 



1,071 : 



Do. 



Galle. 



Besides the above, there are in office one ferro-gallic copy of a 

 map of Karachchi, one folded map of Jaffna, and one folded map 

 of the Island. 



