No. 43.— 1892.] PROCEEDINGS. 



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General Meeting. 



Colombo Museum, August 9, 1892. 

 Present : 



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



The Hon. M. C. Abdul Rahi- 



man, M.L.C. 

 Mr. C. Drieberg. 

 Mr. A. M. Ferguson, C.M.G, 

 Mr. D. W. Ferguson. 

 Dr. W. G. Keith. 



Mr, W. P. Ranasinha. 

 Mr. F. C. Roles. 

 Mr. K. D. C. Seneviratna. 

 Dr. W. G. Vandort. 

 Mr. G. Wall, F.L.S., F.R.A.S., 

 &c, Vice-President. 



Mr. E. S. W. Senathi Raja, Honorary Secretary. 

 Mr. Gerard A. Joseph, Assistant Secretary, 



Visitors :— Five ladies and several gentlemen. 

 Business, 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of Meeting held on 

 March 19, 1892. 



2. Mr. George Wall, Vice-President, at the request of 

 the President, took the Chair, temporarily. 



3. His Lordship the Bishop, before commencing his 

 Paper, made a few introductory remarks. He said that the 

 Paper he was about to read was already known to some of the 

 Members in substance, as copies in rough proof had been 

 supplied to those specially interested in the subject. 

 He wished it known that he was neither the discoverer 

 nor author of the matter he was going to dwell on that 

 evening, but that it was the work rather of one who had 

 gathered and put together what had previously been 

 scattered about in different places. The real honour of the 

 discovery belonged to Mr. K, J. Pohath, though there might 

 be perhaps some question as to who will have the final 

 honour of the discovery of the site under discussion. He was 

 sorry that when he was writing his Paper he was unaware of 

 Mr. Pohath's account of his views, expressed in communi- 

 cations to the Ceylon Independent at the end of May and 

 again in July of 1889,* and also in a letter to the Society in 

 May of that year. He thought that it would have been 

 better to have dealt with them at this Meeting. He had, 

 however, quoted Mr. Pohath's shorter letter to the Orientalist. 



* Mr. Pohath's letters appeared in the Ceylon Independent of May 15 and 

 July 12, 1889. 



