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



Visitors: — Mesclames A, M. Ferguson, junior, W. T. Pearce, 

 R. D. Ormsby, C. Drieberg, A. E. Brown, P. D, Warren, 

 and Miss Vincent ; Messrs. R. D. Ormsby, P. D. Warren, 

 Gerald Browne, P.S., T. A. Wylie, A. Warren, E. H. Joseph, 

 C E. H. Corea, C. Gray, L. van Dort, G. E. Prins, E. Corea, 

 J. van Langenberg, Walter Pereira, Gerard A. Joseph, Dr. J. 

 B„ Spence, and several others. 



1. The Minutes having been read and confirmed, the 

 Honorary Secretary announced that at a recent Meeting of 

 the Council the following gentlemen had been elected Members 

 of the Society, viz. : — Messrs. Felix Reginald Dias, B.A., LL.B. ; 

 Francis Crosbie Roles, M.I.J.; Joseph Saunders Addenbrooke, 

 A.R.I.B.A. ; George Duppa Miller ; Kasim Lebbe Marikar 

 Abdul Kerim, Mudaliyar of the Gate ; William Abraham 

 Ratnayaka ; and Percy Edward Radley. 



2. The Honorary Secretary stated that he had received a 

 letter from the President of the Society, the Lord Bishop of 

 Colombo, expressing his Lordship's regret at being unable to 

 attend the Meeting. 



3. The Chairman said that he had great pleasure in calling 

 upon their venerable Vice-President to read the Paper which 

 he had compiled for the Society ; and in doing so His Excel- 

 lency was sure that his expression of pleasure at seeing 

 Mr, Wall once more among them in renewed health would 

 be cordially endorsed by all present. With these words he 

 would ask Mr. Wall to be so kind as to read the Paper he had 

 prepared as the third of the series on — 



A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT INDUSTRIES OF 

 CEYLON. 



By George Wall, Esq., f.l.s., &c, Vice-President, 



{Third Paper.) 



IN the first place, I have to apologise for the long delay 

 that has occurred in the reading of this Third Paper. On my 

 own behalf I must plead that it has been unavoidable, as my 

 time has been fully absorbed in the interval by a duty which 

 was not contemplated when these Papers were commenced 

 two years ago. 



The First Paper, it may be remembered, treated of the 

 general principles on which the creation and accumulation 

 of wealth depend, and on the effects produced by the manner 



