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JOURNAL, R. A. S. (CEYLON.) VOL. XXI. 



15. Mr. G- A. Joseph read the following Annual Report of 

 the Council for 1908 :— 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1908. 



The Council of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 

 have the honour to submit their Report for 1908 : — 



Meetings and Papers. — Four General Meetings of this Society 

 have been held during the year, at which the following Papers were 

 read and discussed. : — 



(1) " Amongst the last Veddas," by Dr. Moszkowski. 



(2) " Notes on recent work among the Veddas," by Dr. C. G. 



Seligmann, M.D. 



(3) " Portuguese Ceylon at the beginning of the Seventeenth 



Century: a Sketch," by Mr. P. E. Pieris, M.A., CCS. 



(4) " Lesser known Hills of the Batticaloa District and Lower 

 Uva," by Mr. F. Lewis, F.L.S. 



Members — During the past year thirty-three new Members were 

 elected, viz. : — 



The Hon. Mr. H. L. Crawford, 



CM.G. 

 W. E. Wait, M.A., CCS. 

 Dr. L. A. Prins, L.R.C.P. & S. 

 W. A. S. de Vos, Proctor and 



Notary. 

 J. A. Gunaratna, Mudaliyar. 

 C W. Horsfall. 



The Hon. Mr. T. B. L. Moone- 



malle. 

 W. Vaugham, F.E.S. 

 J. Mathieson. 

 C H. Jolliffe, A.M., I.M.E. 

 R. C Kailasapilla, Mudaliyar. 

 A. Lewis. 



A. N. Galbraith, B.A., CCS. 



A. W. B. Redemann. 



A. E. Murrell. 



Dr. H. F. Bawa. F.R.C.S. 



G. W. Jayawardana, J. P. 



D. Obeyesekere, M. A. , F.R.CI. 

 R. H. Lock, M.A. 



E. C. Anderson. 

 J. L. Tancock. 



G. E. Madawala, Proctor. 

 J. Conroy, B.A., CCS. 

 T. H. Chapman, A.M., I.C.E. 

 Dr. W. C Pieris, M.B., CM. 

 C. R. Arasaratnam (non- 

 resident). 



E. W. Jayawardana, Barrister- 

 • at-Law. 



Dr. E. Roberts, F.F.P.S., 



M.R.CS. 

 T. G. W. Jayawardana, A.M., 



I.M.E. 



B. Constantine, B.A., CCS. 

 Rev. Walter J. Noble. 



F. A. Obeyesekera, M.A. 

 A. M. Hamid. 



Life Members — Mr. C M. Fernando M.A., LL.M. , Crown 

 Counsel, has become a Life-Member. 



Resigned.- — Three Members have resigned, viz., J. C Hall, 

 D. Finch Noyes, and Dr. W. G. Rockwood. 



Deaths — The Council record with regret the death of following 

 Members, viz., Dr. W. H. de Silva, F.R.C.S., and Mr. Charles 

 Perera, Proctor, and also of Mr. J. Parsons, B.Sc, Principal 

 Mineral Surveyor, a Member of the Council for 1908, who lost his 

 life under peculiarly sad circumstances recently. Dr. W. H. de 

 Silva joined the Society in 1894, and served in the Council from 

 1905. He regularly attended all General and Council Meetings. 



