General Meeting, Feb. 1st, 1854. Ixxxiii, 



Table II. 

 No. 1. No. 3. 



© £> m 6 % & 46 



#a kha loo ra i i na 



No. 2. No. 4. 



6 org ep ^ C or C o «» ®> 



la a da u ta na ha jha 



It would be interesting to follow these forms into their 

 grammatical position and value in the language, and to ascer- 

 tain the explanation of their distribution. Such an inquiry 

 might open up to us the philosophy of the language, as well 

 as its historical origin and philological relationship, and lay a 

 foundation for rules for its proper cultivation. 



J. Starke, 

 Librarian. 



In connexion with the Library it may be stated, that several 

 of the Reports of Juries of the Great Exhibition have been 

 handed over to this Society by Dr. Willisford, to whom they 

 were originally sent by Mr. Capper, the Agent for Ceylon at 

 the Exhibition, and formerly Secretary to this Society. It is 

 to be regretted that these books were not consigned to the 

 Society in the first instance, and it is also a matter of deep 

 regret, that no Books or Medals published by the Exhibition 

 Commissioners have been sent to the Society, through whose 

 instrumentality the products of Ceylon were mainly repre- 

 sented at the Great Industrial Exhibition. 



The papers bearing upon this transfer will be laid on the 

 table. 



Your Secretary has also to lay before the Society a letter 

 received from the Secretary of the Parent Asiatic Society, in 

 acknowledgment of a contribution of a series of Volumes of 

 the Transactions of the Ceylon Branch; as follows : — 



Royal Asiatic Society, 5, New Burlington Street, 



London, 19th November, 1853. 



Sie, 



The undermentioned Donation having been laid before a General 



(Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 2. 

 Nos. 1 & 2. 1853.) 



