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the Island in the establishment of the Gardens at Peradeniya, 

 and had no doubt some hard work in removing the plants 

 from the old Gardens at Kalutara, whence, it must be 

 remembered, all had to be carried with great labour over 

 footpaths, as there were no roads then. Mr. Moon contributed 

 many valuable Papers to the Colombo Literary and Agricul- 

 tural Society, of which he was the Secretary for some time. 

 Dr. Trimen said that he had paid a great deal of attention to 

 the Sinhalese names of plants, but that those given by 

 villagers require careful checking. Natives, when questioned 

 about the name of a plant, never like to plead ignorance, but 

 either invent some name based on the characters of the plant, 

 or give it the name of some other plant. He found it best 

 to get the name of any particular plant from several different 

 sources and then compare and take the most reliable. He 

 also said that the carpenters caused a great deal of confusion 

 by giving the names of low-country trees to those found in 

 the hill districts, where there were no villages, and hence no 

 real names. He concluded by saying that a great deal was 

 left to be done by Sinhalese gentlemen like Mr. de Silva in 

 determining botanically several plants of which only the 

 native names are at present known. 



A vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to Mr. DE 

 SlLVA for his Paper. 



Mr. J. H. Barber proposed a vote of thanks to the chair, 

 which was seconded by Mr. Frederick Lewis and carried 

 with acclamation, after which the Meeting terminated. 



