No. 43.— 1892.] 



PROCEEDINGS. 



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Business. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting held on December 

 10, 1891, were read and confirmed. 



2. The Honorary Secretary announced the election at the 

 last Meeting of the Council of the following gentlemen as 

 Resident Members of the Society, viz.:— 



Mr. E. W. Lee, CCS. 

 Mr. H. Pedro Perera. 

 Mr. J. W. F. Gore. 

 Mr. A. H. Monerasinghe. 



Mr. R. 0. S. Morgan. 

 Mr. S. Moonesinghe. 

 Hon. J. A. Swettenham, CCS. 



3. The following Report was read :— 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1891. 



The Council of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society have the honour to lay before this Meeting their 

 Annual Report for the year 1891. 



Meetings. 



Four General Meetings of the Society have been held. 

 The first Meeting (at which the Annual Report for 1890 was 

 read) was held only on the 14th of May, it having been 

 found impossible from a variety of causes to hold any 

 Meetings earlier in the year. 



The following is a list of the Papers read, viz. : — 



(1) A Translation from the Dutch by Mr. F. H. de Vos 

 of extracts from a work by C. A. L. van Troostenburg de 

 Bruyn, relating to the History of Ceylon between the years 

 1602-1795, entitled De Hervormde KerJc in Nederlandsch 

 Oost-Indie Onder De Oost — Indische Compagnie. 



(2) A Paper (the fourth of a series) contributed by Mr. 

 George Wall, Vice-President of the Society, on " A History 

 of the Ancient Industries of Ceylon." 



(3) "Notes on Eggs and Nests of the Brachypterniis 

 Ceylonus and Tockus Gingalensis" by Mr. Frederick Lewis. 



(4) A Paper on "A New Method of Preserving and 

 Mounting Zoological Specimens," by Mr. Amyrald Haly, 

 Director of the Colombo Museum. 



(5) " Ribeiro's Account of the Siege of Colombo in 1655-56," 

 a translation from the Portuguese, by Mr. Donald Ferguson. 



(6) " Buddhist Ruins near Vavuniya," by Mr. J. P. Lewis, 

 CCS. 



(7) " A Contribution to Sinhalese Plant Lore," by Mr. W. 

 Arthur de Silva, of the School of Agriculture. 



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