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a moderate vote in the next Supply Bill in aid of the expenses 

 incurred. The name of the gentleman was Dr. C. G. Seligmann. 

 Dr. Haddon, in a letter to him, said : "I think there is now not 

 the slightest doubt that Dr. C. G. Seligmann will be available this 

 winter. As I said before, he is thoroughly competent, having 

 been trained by Dr. Rivers and myself, and he has been twice to 

 New Guinea and once to Sarawak. Fortunately, though the 

 Drs. Sarasin have done a good deal, physical, &c, and recently 

 archseologically, there is still much to be done, especially in 

 sociology, religion, magic, psychology, &c, and all this Dr. Selig- 

 mann can do extremely well." They as a Society would do all 

 they could to welcome Dr. Seligmann in Ceylon. 



Then they were interested to note that their Vice-President, 

 Mr. J. P. Lewis, was continuing his papers in the " Architectural 

 Review." In its August number appeared the concluding part 

 of his paper on Dutch Architecture, certain illustrations from 

 which were placed on the table for inspection. 



Further, he had received from Mr. John Pole of Maskeliya an 

 interesting brief Paper, which he had sent at his request, with a 

 collection of stone flakes and other remains connected with the 

 Veddas. All this collection had been made by him after the 

 Drs. Sarasin had left, as Mr. Pole had presented to them his 

 previous collections. They felt it would not be fair to Mr. Pole 

 to bring up his Paper that evening as no announcement had been 

 made, and friends specially interested in the Stone Age would 

 like to be present. At the next Meeting they would have, too, a 

 Paper by Mr. Donald Ferguson on the Dutch naturalist Governor , 

 which with Mr. Pole's paper might go well together. 



The Chairman then invited Mr. C. M. Fernando to read Mr. 

 J. Still's papers. Mr. Fernando, who had himself made a study 

 of numismatics, had brought to the Meeting his own collection of 

 old coins. 



4. Mr. C. M. Fernando read the following Papers : — 



