No. 43.— 1892.] 



PROCEEDINGS. 



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General Meeting. 

 Colombo Museum Library, November 4, 1892. 

 Present : 



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



Mr. A. T. Shamsuddin. 

 Hon. J. A. Swettenham, 



C.M.G., Vice-President. 

 Dr. W. G. Vandort. 



Mr. J. H. Barber. 

 Mr. F. H. M. Corbet. 

 Mr. D. C. Pedris. 

 Mr. H. P. Perera. 

 Mr. W. P. Ranasinha. 



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

 Mr. Gerard A. Joseph, Assistant Secretary. 



Visitors : — About twenty-five gentlemen. 



Business. 



1. Read and confirmed Minutes of Meeting held on 

 October 10, 1892. 



2. It was announced that the following Resident Mem- 

 bers had been elected, viz. : — Mr. T. B. Yatawara, Mr. K. A. 

 J. Pohath, Mudaliyar, Mr. J. A. Henderson, and Mr. J. D. 

 Casinader. 



3. The President stated the object of the Meeting, and 

 added that as the importance of the subject had led to an 

 adjournment of the debate, the Council had thought well 

 that he should remind Members what the nature of their 

 business properly was. In cases of an important or lengthy 

 kind, masses of information could only be communicated 

 to the Society in the form of Papers : Papers laid before 

 that Society ivere documents which had been brought under 

 the consideration of the Council of the Society, and the 

 value of which the Council had had an opportunity of guaran- 

 teeing to the Members it invited to hear them: any other 

 Paper would be out of place in the discussion. 



Properly speaking, what should follow upon the reading 

 of a Paper was not the communication of other masses of 

 information, but remarks arising out of that Paper, and it 

 was not, he thought, according to the Proceedings of that, or 

 of any similar, Society that such remarks should extend to 

 any great length. 



The Council had recommended him, however, to allow 

 a certain amount of departure from the strict order of 

 business, and to allow Members who had put what they 

 intended to say in the form of Papers to read such Papers ; 

 but it must be understood that was not to become in any 

 sense a precedent for the future, nor were the Papers to be 



