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4. The Chairman said he had next to call the attention of 

 those present to the architectural drawings and photographs of 

 ruined structure at Polonnaruwa made by the Archaeological 

 Survey Department. The Head Draughtsman, Mr. Perera, was 

 present, and, after the ordinary proceedings were over, would be 

 able to point out to any one interested various points in regard 

 to those illustrations. 



5. Mr. Haewaed read an invitation received from the Seventh 

 International Zoological Congress to be represented at its Meeting 

 to be held at Boston, Mass., U. S. A., from 19th to 23rd August. 



Members. 



6. Mr. G. A. Joseph announced that the following gentlemen 

 had been elected Members of the Society since the General Meet- 

 ing held on December 11, 1906: — Mr. J. Parsons, Director of 

 the Mineralogical Survey, Mr. C. L. Joseph, and Lieut. H. J. 

 Jones, A.O.D. 



7. Mr. Harward next read the Council's Report for 1906. 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1906. 



The Council of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 

 have the honour to submit the following Report for the year 

 1906 :•— 



Meetings and Papers. 



Three General Meetings of this Society have been held during 

 the year, at which the following Papers were read and discussed: — 



(1) " The Coconut Palm in Ceylon : Beginning, Rise, and 



Progress of its Cultivation," Part I. up to 1660 a.d., 

 by the Hon. Mr. J. Ferguson, C.M.G. 



(2) " Some Survivals in Sinhalese Art," by Dr. A. K. 



Coomaraswamy, Sc.D. 



(3) "A Lecture on a Sinhalese Painted Box : A Study of 



Kandyan Art and Artists," by Dr. A. K. Coomara- 

 swamy, Sc.D. 



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Journals. 



One number of the Journal. (Vol. XVIII. , No. 56, was published 

 during the year. It contains, in addition to the Proceedings of 

 the Meetings, the following Papers :■ — 



(1) "Mr. Isaac Augustin Rumpf," by Mr, F. H. de Vos, 



Barrister-at-Law. 



(2) " Portuguese Inscriptions in Ceylon," by Mr. J. P. Lewis, 



M.A., CCS. 



(3) " Rajasinha I., Parricide and Centenarian: A Review," 



by Mr. W. F. Gunawardhana, Mudaliyar. 



(4) " Two Old Sinhalese Swords," by Mr. C. M. Fernando, 



M.A., LL.M. 



(5) " Third Supplementary Paper on the Monumental 



Remains of the Dutch East India Company of Ceylon," 

 by Mr. F. H. de Vos, Barrister-at-Law. 



