No. 42.— 1891.] 



PROCEEDINGS. 



47 



General Meeting. 



Colombo Museum, June 9, 1891. 



Present : 



The Lord Bishop of Colombo, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Henry Bois 

 Mr. Stanley Bois. 



The Rev. W. Charlesworth. 

 Mr. M. Cochran, M.A., F.C.S. 

 Mr. W. H. G. Duncan. 

 Miss Fredoux. 



Mr. C. E. Jayatilaka. 

 Mr. F. C. Roles. 

 Mr. A. T. Shamsuddin. 

 Mr. George Wall, F.L.S., 

 F.R.A.S., Vice-President. 



Mr. E. S. W. Senathi Raja, M.R.A.S., &c, Honorary Secretary. 

 Mr. Gerard A. Joseph, Assistant Secretary. 



Visitors : five ladies and six gentlemen. 

 Business. 



1. The Minutes of the last General Meeting (May 14, 

 1891) were read and confirmed. 



2. The accessions to the Society's Library since the last 

 Meeting were laid on the table. 



3. The Honorary Secretary announced that Messrs. 

 J. B. M. Ridout, District Surveyor ; A. D. Renganathan, 

 District Engineer ; Tambeyah Sammogam ; and James Morrel 

 Chitty, Advocate of the Supreme Court, had been elected 

 Resident Members of the Society at the last Meeting of the 

 Council. 



4. Mr. George Wall, F.L.S., F.R.A.S., Vice-President, read 

 his Paper on — 



A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT INDUSTRIES OF CEYLON. 

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



{Fourth Paper.) 



In the discussion of the previous Paper it was stated by 

 two of the speakers that the inferences therein were at 

 variance with explicit statements of the Mahaivansa. Refer- 

 ence was made, however, to only two discrepancies, both of 

 which had been fully met in previous lectures. One is the 

 inference that the rice with which Kuveni regaled Wijayo's 

 .party was procured from wrecked ships. It has already been 



