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carry on the work which Mr. Still has previously been doing. I 

 have, therefore, assented to these two native gentlemen* taking 

 up between them the work which Mr. Still has done hitherto. 



There is a gentleman — being a stranger to the Island, to me he 

 has an unpronounceable namef — who has been at Oxford for some 

 years engaged to bring out the " Epigraphia Zeylanica." I was 

 not at all satisfied with the progress made. I do not think that 

 that gentleman put such backbone into the work as he ought to have 

 done, nor that he has paid that amount of attention to the work 

 which he might have done. I have, therefore, made arrangements 

 that in future the work which he will do will be done practically 

 by contract within certain periods; and that, instead of the 

 publication being brought out after long lapses of time, we shall 

 have at all events a certain amount of work deliverable every 

 twelve months. 



These are the one or two points which I thought might be of 

 interest to Members of the Society. I have therefore inflicted 

 these remarks upon you before putting the question of the passing 

 of the Report to the Meeting. 



3. Mr. F. Lewis proposed the adoption of the Report. 



Mr. F. C. Roles seconded, adding that they were grateful to 

 His Excellency for his remarks. 

 The motion was carried. 



Election of Office-bearers. 



4. On the motion of Mr. E. Evans, seconded by Mr. James 

 Pieris, the following Office-Bearers for the year 1908 were 

 elected : — 



President. — The Hon. Mr. John Ferguson, C.M.G. 



Vice- Presidents.— The Hon. Mr. J. P. Lewis, M.A., CCS. ; 

 A. Willey, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. ; Mr. P. Freudenberg, J.P. ; 

 Mr. P. Arunachalam, M.A., CCS. 



Council. 



Mr. C Drieberg, B.A., F.H.A.S. 



Mr. R. G. Anthonisz. 



Dr. W. H. de Silva, M.B., CM., 



F.R.CS. 

 The Hon. Mr. 8. C. Obeyesekere. 

 Mr. Simon de Silva, Gate Muda- 



liyar. 



The Hon. Mr. Justice A. Wood 



Renton. 

 Mr. P. E. Pieris, M.A., CCS. 



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

 LL.M. 



Mr. A. M. Gunas^kera, Muda- 

 liyar. 



Mr. James Parsons, B.Sc. 

 Mr. H. W. Codrington, B.A., 

 CCS. 



Mr. E. R. Goonaratna, J.P., 

 Gate Mudaliyar. 



Honorary Treasurer. — Mr. G. A. Joseph. 



Honorary Secretaries.- — Messrs. H. C P. Bell, CCS., 

 J. Harward, M.A., and G. A. Joseph. 



* Messrs. D. A. L. Perera and W. G. Fernando, 

 f D. M. de Z. Wickremasinghe. 



