NO. 50.— 1899.] ANNUAL REPORT. 



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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 Colombo Museum, February 28, 1899. 

 Present : 



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



Mr. R. G-. Antbonisz. I Mr. P. Fretidenberg. 



Mr. A. E. Buultjens. | Mr. J. A. Henderson. 

 Mr. E. Booth. Mr, P. E. Morgappah, 



Mr. C. Drieberg. Mr. F. H. Price. 



Mr. J. Ferguson. Dr. Y. R. S&ravanamuttu. 



Mr. R. H. Ferguson. I Mr. G. H. Suhren. 



Mr. F. C. Roles, Honorary Treasurer. 



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

 Visitors : Twelve gentlemen. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of General Meeting held on 

 August 20, 1898. 



2. Mr. Harward read the following : — 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1898. 



The Council of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 

 have the honour to submit the following Report for the year 1898 : — 



Meetings. 



Three General Meetings of this Society were held during the year, 

 at which the following Papers were read and discussed, viz. :> — 



(1) " Contributions to Ceylon Malacology : Description of a new 



Helicoid Land Shell from the Southern Province," by O. 

 Collett, F.R.M.S. 



(2) " Aids to the Identification of Ceylon Birds : Part I. — Intro- 



duction and Key to the Passeres" by A. Haly, Director of 

 the Colombo Museum. 



(3) " A Translation from the Dutch of Cornelis Taay van Wezel's 



Manuscript on Elephants in Ceylon, 1713," by F. H. de 

 Vos, Barrister-at-Law. 



(4) " Don Jeronimo de Azevedo, Governor of Ceylon, 1594-1611 



A.D.," by A. E. Buultjens, B.A.Cantab. 



Besides these Papers, a Paper entitled "Monumental Remains of 

 the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon," by F. H. de Vos, was 

 accepted by the Council to be printed, and forms part of the Journal 

 for 1898. 



