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



President— The Right Rev. R. S. Copleston, D.D., Lord 

 Bishop of Colombo. 



Vice-Presidents. — Mr. George Wall, F.L.S., F.R.A.S., and the 

 Hon. J. A. Swettenham, C.C.S. 



Council.— Mr. H. Bois ; Col. the Hon. F. C. H. Clarke, R.A., 

 C.M.G.; Mr.F. H. M. Corbet,M.R.A.S. ; Mr.A.M.Ferguson,;c.M.G. ; 

 Mr. Staniforth Green ; Dr. W. R. Kynsey, C.M.G.; Mr. J. P. 

 Lewis, C.C.S. ; the Hon. P. Ramanathan, C.M.G., M.L.C. ; Mr. 

 W. P. Ranasingha ; the Hon. A. de A. Seneviratna, M.L.C; 

 Dr. Henry Trimen, M.B., F.R.S. ; Dr. W. G. Vandort. 



Honorary Treasurer. — Mr. W. H. G. Duncan. 



Honorary Secretaries. — Messrs. H. C. P. Bell, C.C.S., and 

 E. S. W. Senathi Raja. 



Mr. E. C. Davibs seconded, and the motion was carried 

 unanimously. 



During the election of the Office Bearers His Lordship the 

 Bishop vacated the Chair, which was occupied by Sir E. N. 

 Walker. 



4. His Lordship the Bishop again took the Chair amidst 

 applause, and on behalf of himself and the other gentlemen 

 who had been honoured by election or re-election tendered 

 his best thanks to the Meeting. He said he would not pretend 

 that he himself was at all proud of the manner in which the 

 officers of the Society, so far as their public appearances went, 

 had discharged their duties. He was quite conscious him- 

 self of having neglected his, and he felt that they should cut 

 but a bad figure unless it were known to the Members of the 

 Society that a good deal of work had been done out of sight, 

 that a good deal of really useful, laborious work had been 

 done by the Secretaries in the matter of printing and choice 

 of books to be purchased for the Society, and that a most 

 arduous work had been admirably and diligently carried 

 through by the Treasurer. But he confessed that as regarded 

 their appearance at Meetings they ought to have both a greater 

 number of Meetings, and those Meetings which they did 

 have more lively than some of them had been. With regard 

 to the number of Meetings and efforts to procure Papers the 

 Council were no doubt in a great measure responsible, but 

 he must remind the Members of the Society that the pre- 

 paration of Papers and the giving of life to the Meetings 

 remained mainly with the Members themselves. He was sure 

 he spoke what the Council would wish him to say when 

 he asked them to do their utmost to contribute Papers to the 

 Proceedings of the Society. What he was going to take the 

 opportunity of saying bore, to some extent, upon that matter, 

 and was a suggestion in that direction. 



