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Mr. Pieris then read parts of the Paper. . 

 [For the Paper, see pages 187-220, ante.] 

 Mr. A. E. Roberts offered some remarks. 



His Excellency the Governor said that the Paper, like Mr. 

 Pieris's other Papers, was a most interesting one. His Excellency 

 had recently been going through another translation by Mr. 

 Pieris's, viz., of Ribeiro's Ceilan, and he took that opportunity 

 of congratulating Mr. Pieris on the work. His Excellency hoped 

 that Mr. Pieris would always be ready to put his special talents 

 to use in that direction for their benefit. 



11. Mr. P. Arunachalam said he had great pleasure in 

 proposing a vote of thanks to the gentlemen who had read the 

 Papers, which were of the highest interest. Mr. Lewis's Paper 

 was in everyway a model Paper, which brought together interest- 

 ing information on a variety of matters and such as Civil Servants 

 should write. He was very sorry to hear that Mr. Lewis would 

 soon be going away, and that they would lose further opportunity 

 again of having such interesting Papers from him. Mr. Pieris's 

 Paper, though of a different kind, was quite as interesting and 

 was worthy of his scholarship and learning. 



12. Mr. F. Lewis seconded, and the vote was carried with 

 applause. 



13. Mr. J. Peiris proposed a vote of thanks to His Excellency 

 the Governor for presiding over that Meeting. No words, he 

 thought, were necessary from him to command that vote, as the 

 fact that His Excellency had come there to preside over that 

 Meeting at the tail end of a busy week was evidence of the great 

 interest he took in the doings of that Society. 



14. Mr. P. D. Warren seconded. 



15. His Excellency the Governor briefly acknowledged 

 the vote of thanks. 



1 5 JUN. 1910 



