JOURNAL 



OF THE 



EOYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 

 CEYLON BRANCH. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



Colombo Museum, February 1, 1899, 

 Present : 



The Lord Bishop of Colombo, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. P. Coomaraswamy. Mr. P. Freiidenberg. 



Dr. W. G. Yandort 



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

 Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of Council Meeting of November 

 16, 1898. 



2. Resolved, — That the following Candidates be elected as Resident 

 Members : — 



R. H.Ferguson, B.A.,Lond.: recommended j S. Green, 

 by ( J. Ferguson. 



• H. T. Gardiner, F.R.H.S.,Lond. : recom- \ Dr. W. G. Yandort. 

 mended by \ J. Ferguson. 



3 Laid on the table Circular No. 224 of November 17, with 

 Colonial Secretary's letter, forwarding Papers on Polyandry in 

 Ceylon, and suggesting that the information be incorporated in the 

 J ournal of the Society, together with the opinions of the President and 

 Mr. J. Ferguson, to whom the Papers were referred by the Council for 

 report. 



Resolved, — That only Mr. levers' Paper be printed and do form part 

 of the Journal, but that it be not read ; and that the extracts in the 

 appendix from early writers on Ceylon be omitted, the references 

 alone being given.* 



4. Laid on the table original manuscript of the Capitulation of 

 Trincomalee, 1795, and suggested that the document be printed in the 

 Society's Journal.f 



* See p. 3 for Paper. 



27—99 



\ See lithograph. 



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