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



GENERAL MEETING. 

 Colombo Museum, November 4, 1907. 



Present : 



His Excellency Sir Henry McCallum, G.C.M.G., 

 Patron, in the Chair. 



The Hon. Sir J. T. Hutchinson, Vice-Patron. 

 The Hon. Mr. Hugh Clifford, C.M.G., Vice-Patron. 

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

 Mr. P. Freudenberg, J. P., Vice-President. 



Mr. R. G. Anthonisz, Govern- 

 ment Archivist. 

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

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

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

 Sir William Mitchell. 

 Mr. M. A. C. Mohamad. 

 Mr. P. E. Morgappah. 



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

 Visitors : Twelve ladies and seventeen gentlemen. 



Dr. A. Nell, M.R.C.S. 

 Mr. James Pieris, M.A., LL.M. 

 Mr. T. Rajepakse, Gate Muda- 

 liyar. 



Mr. F. A. Tiseverasingha, 



Proctor, S.C. 

 Mr. F. E. Wait. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of last General Meeting held 

 on September 30, 1907. 



2. His Excellency the Governor — after preliminaries — 

 called on Mr. R. G. Anthonisz, Government Archivist, to read the 

 following Paper by Mr. Donald Ferguson on " Joan Gideon Loten, 

 F.R.S., the Naturalist Governor of Ceylon (1752-57), and the 

 Ceylonese Artist de Bevere " : — 



