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General Meeting : September 30, 1891 ... ... 63 



Papers read : — 



" Notes on Eggs and Nests of Brachypternus Ceylonus 



and TocJcus Gingalensis" by F. Lewis, Esq. ... 63 



" A New Method of Preserving and Mounting Zoological 

 Specimens," by A. Haly, Esq., Director of the Colombo 

 Museum ... ... ... 65 



" Ribeiro's Account of the Seige of Colombo in 1655-56," 

 translated from the Dutch by D. W. Ferguson, Esq. ... 74 



Council Meeting : November 12, 1891 ... ... 109 



General Meeting : December 10, 1891 ... ... 110 



Papers read : — 



' ; Buddhist Ruins near Vavuniya," by J. P. Lewis, Esq., 

 c.c.s. ... ... ... ... Ill 



u A Contribution to Sinhalese Plant Lore," by W. Arthur 



de Silva, Esq. ... ... ... 113 



