No. 62. — 1909.] AKNTTAL REPORT. 



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Your Council passed the following Resolution regarding his 

 death : — " That this Council desires to place on record its sense of 

 the loss sustained by the lamented death of Dr. W. H. de Silva, a 

 Member of Council for three years, and a Member of the Society for 

 fourteen years." 



The Society has now on its roll 281 Members; of these, 31 are 

 Life Members and 10 Honorary Members. 



Publications. — Two Numbers of the Journal, Vol. XIX. , Nos. 58 

 and 59, were published during the year. 



No. 58 contains, in addition to the Proceedings of the Council 

 and General Meetings, the following Papers : — 



(1) Notes on Painting. Dyeing, Lakwork, Dumbara Mats, and 

 Paper in Ceylon," by Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy, D.Sc. ; (2) 

 " Nuwara-gala, Eastern Province," by Mr. F. Lewis, F.L.S. ; (3) 

 "Roman Coins found in Ceylon," by Mr. J. Still; (4) "Notes 

 on a find of Eldings made in Anuradhapura ," by Mr. J. Still; 

 (5) "Some Early Copper Coins of Ceylon," by Mr. J. Still; (6) 

 " Joan Gideon Loten, F.R.S., the Naturalist Governor, and the 

 Ceylonese Artist de Bevere," by Mr. Donald Ferguson ; (7) "A few 

 Remarks on Prehistoric Stones in Ceylon," by Mr. J. Pole. 



No. 59 contains the following paper : — " The Discovery of 

 Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506," by Mr. Donald Ferguson. 



Barros and do Couto. — The valuable " History of Ceylon from 

 the earliest times to 1600 a.d. as related by Joao de Barros and 

 Diogo do Couto," specially translated and edited for the Society 

 by Mr. Donald Ferguson, and forming Vol. XX., No. 60, of the 

 Society's Proceedings, will be issued free to Members as an extra 

 number. 



List of Members. — A list of all the present Members, with the 

 names of all the past and present Office-Bearers from the begin- 

 ning of the Society in 1845 and up to the close of 1908, has been 

 compiled by Mr. F. D. Jayasinha, the Society's clerk and librarian, 

 and is in the press. 



Library. — The additions to the Library, including parts of 

 periodicals, numbered 304. The Library is indebted for dona- 

 tions to the Government of India ; the Archaeological Survey of 

 India ; the Lingustic Survey of India ; the Secretary of State for 

 India in Council ; the Archaeological Survey of Burma ; the Siam 

 Society ; the Royal Irish Academy ; Sir R. C. Temple : Mrs. Ethel 

 M. Coomaraswamy ; Dr. A. Caroll : Mr. W. Harischandra ; Mr. B. C. 

 T. de Mello ; Mr. R. L. Shaw ; Mr. L. Jones ; the Ceylon Planters' 

 Association ; the Ceylon University Association ; Drs. Paul and 

 Fritsz Sarasin ; Mr. A. F. M. Abdur Rahiman ; the Consul for 

 Netherlands at Colombo ; the Director of Public Instruction ; the 

 Postmaster- General ; the Hon. the Colonial Secretary ; Mr. C. E. 

 Low, I.C.S.; Mr. H. R. Nevill. I.C.S.; Major Huhes Buller ; Mr. F. 

 R. Hamingway ; Mr. Thibaut ; Mr. Donald Ferguson ; Dr. E. 

 Denison Ross ; Mr. H. Couses ; Mr. M. Rengacharya ; Mr. L. S. S. 

 O'Malley, I.C.S.; Mr. R. V. Russel. I.C.S.; Mr. A. C. Taylor, M.A. ; 

 Mr. E. S. de Kler.k ; Mr. Know ; Mr. W. Francis, I.C.S. ; Mr. A. 

 F. R. Hoernle, CLE. ; and Captain E. J. Chambers. 



