Genera! Meeting, March 5th, 1853. li. 



The two Societies may therefore go on, not only with- 

 out rivalry but without jealousy; and all may contribute to 

 literary and social progress. 



Since the last Quarterly Meeting the following additional 

 numbers of the Journal of the Indian Archipelago have been 

 received, vizt. for July and August (one No.) in December 

 last> and for September and October recently. 



The Rev. B. Boake has also favoured the Society by 

 presenting to the Library Vol. 3 of the Transactions of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society, and a volume of Specimens of the 

 Popular Poetry of Persia, collected and translated by A. 

 Chodzko, Esq. 



A communication was also received in December last from 

 W. C. Ondaatje, Esq., Badulla, with the Articles mentioned 

 in a Memorandum of Vegetable products of Ceylon, presented 

 by him to the Society, as follows, viz. 



" 1. Cinnamon suet. Oil from the seeds of the Cinnamon, collected at 

 Badulla. 



2. Oil from what I think the Daphnidium, Cubeba, Nees., Laurus Cu- 

 heba, Laur. 



3. Ceylon Gamboge Oil. 



4. Oil from Ceylon Oak, Schleicheia trijuga. 



5. Fibrous Sack, prepared from the Liber or endofhcdeum of a tree 

 described in my " Observations," (on the Vegetable Products of Ceylon.) 



6. Specimen of Tinnevelly Senna, cultivated at Putlam by me. 



7. "Wood Oil or Wood Tar extracted from the Sethia Indica, collected 

 at Putlam, together with a dried specimen of the tree. 



8. Root of the Rubia cordifolia which was discovered by me on the 

 8th December, 1852, at BsL&vll&r —Badulla, 15th December, 1852. 



In reference to No. 5 of the preceding list, your Com- 

 mittee would draw the attention of the Curator of the 

 Museum, by whom the articles will be carefully examined, 

 to a " specimen of the wood of the Riti Gaha, and a bag 

 made of the bark as used by the natives, from E. It. 

 Power, Esq.," and laid before the Society 1st December, 1849, 



Your Committee recommend that a Local Committee 

 be now appointed for Jaffna, the more effectually to carry 



