336 journal, r.a.s. (ceylon). [Vql. II., Part II. 



Library. 



The following additions to the Library were also laid on the 

 table : — 



Bennet's Ceylon, presented by D. Smith, Esq. 



A number of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London. 



A number of the Journal of the Geological Society of London. 



A number of the Calcutta Review. 



Meteorological Diary for Batticotta. 



Meteorological Diary for Trincomalee. 



Papers. 



The following Papers were read : — 



Notice of the Geological Formation of Nuwara Eliya, by 

 Dr. Kelaart. 



Notice of the Manufacture of Sugar from the Sap of the Cocoa- 

 nut, by Messrs. J. G. and W. S. Taylor, 



On the Liu Language, its Poets and its Poetry, by J. de 

 Alwis, Esq. 



Special General Meeting. 



March 23, 1850. 

 Rev. D. J. Gogerly in the chair. 



The objects of the Meeting were explained by the Chairman, 

 viz., to receive a Paper by Lieut. Henderson on some supposed 

 footprints discerned in a rock near Kurunegala, and other 

 general business. 



Lieut. Henderson's Paper was then read by the Secretary, and 

 proposed for publication in the ensuing number of the Journal, 

 with another from A. O. Brodie, Esq., of Puttalam, on the same 

 subject, but written in contravention of the former gentleman's 

 view. With regard to the Paper now before the Society, it was 

 objected that having been already submitted to the Geological 

 Society of London, it could not now be received into this Journal. 

 On the other hand, it appeared to all manifestly unfair towards 

 Lieut. Henderson to publish Mr. Brodie's Paper without his, and 

 it was further suggested that it would be more advisable to wait 

 for a reply, which Mr. Henderson had promised to Mr. Brodie's 

 strictures on his views. A long discussion ensued, during which, 

 in addition to the geological question at issue between the writers, 

 much of a very interesting nature was elicited from the native 

 gentlemen present, on the existence of similar rocks in other 

 parts of the Island, and the native legends regarding the nature 

 and origin of the marks on them. It was finally determined that 

 the Society should not be hasty in giving their sanction to views 

 which were at least entirely new in the annals of geology, and 

 that the publication of both Papers be deferred for the present. 



