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



The donations received during the year includes the Imperial 

 Gazetteer of India, of which 23 volumes have been received, 

 presented by the Secretary of State for India in Council. 



For valuable exchanges received during the year the Society is 

 indebted to the following : — 



The Geological Society of London ; California Academy of 

 Sciences ; the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland ; 

 the Smithsonian Institute; Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-Land- 

 en Volkenkunde, Batavia ; Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Berlin ; 

 John Hopkins University, Baltimore; the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences , Philadelphia ; the Royal University of Upsala : the Pali 

 Text Society, London ; the American Oriental Society ; the 

 Library of Congress , Washington ; Societie Zoologique de France ; 

 the Musee Guimet, Paris ; the Royal Geographical Society of 

 Australasia ; the Bibliotheca Buddhr a, St. Petersburg ; De 

 F Academie Imperiale des Sciences , St. Petersburg ; the Royal 

 Society of Victoria ; the Royal Society of New South Wales, 

 Sydney ; U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington ; the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology , Washington ; the United States 

 Geological Survey ; the Geological Survey of Canada ; the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan ; the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society ; the Anthropological Society of Bombay ; the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal ; K. K. Naturhistorischen Hopmuseums, Aus- 

 tria ; the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ; 

 Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, Leipzig ; the State 

 Archives, Netherlands ; the Bureau of Education, Washington ; 

 the Royal Colonial Institute ; the Director-General of Archaeo- 

 logy, India ; and l'Ecole Franc aise d' Extreme Orient, Hanori. 



Accommodation. — The Council note with satisfaction that 

 the much-needed extension providing accommodation for the 

 expansion of the Libraries now housed in the Museum is nearing 

 completion. 



Archaeological Survey. 



The study of the Archaeology of Ceylon is one of the most 

 important of the objects of this Society ; so it is with feelings of much 

 satisfaction your Council note the steps taken by the Government 

 for the continuance of the Archaeological Survey and the increased 

 votes given for the work in 1909. 



The Archaeological Commissioner has, as usual, courteously 

 responded to the request of the Council to be favoured with a 

 sketch of the operations of the Archaeological Survey during 

 1908:— 



I. — Anurddhapura, 



Clearing. — Under orders from the Government the Archaeo- 

 logical Survey labour force at Anura dhapura was employed 

 for the first four months of 1908 exclusively in clearing jungle, and 

 in further thinning out forest , so as to leave all areas— for the first 

 time in one year — swept of rank vegetation. 



The annual vote since 1898 of Rs. 4,000 for clearing ruins at 

 Anuradhapura had proved insufficient, and was increased from 



