No. 54.— 1903.] 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
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Valuable exchanges were received during the year from the following 
Institutions and Societies : The American Oriental Society ; the 
Royal Society of Victoria ; the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 
delphia ; the Smithsonian Institute; Bombay Branch of the Royal 
Asiatic Society ; United States Department of Agriculture ; Wagner 
Institute of Sciences, Philadelphia ; Geological Survey of the United 
States of America ; Field Columbian Museum ; the State Archives ; 
the Bureau of Education ; the Societie Zoologique, Paris ; Anthro- 
pologiche Gessellschaft, Koenig-graatzer-strasse, Berlin ; Deutsche 
Morgenlandische G-essellschaf t, Leipzig ; Royal Society of New South 
Wales ; California Academy of Sciences ; Societe Imperiale des 
Naturalistes de Moscow ; China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Soceity ; 
Asiatic Society of Japan ; Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain 
and Ireland ; the Indian Museum ; Asiatic Society of Bengal ; John 
Hopkins University ; Geological Society of London ; the Anthropo- 
logical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ; the Geological and 
Natural History Survey of Canada ; the Royal Colonial Institute ; 
Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; the Royal Geographical 
Society of Australasia ; and Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 
Accommodation. 
The Council in 1898 directed the attention of Government to the 
congested state of the Library and has regularly referred to the subject 
in the Annual Reports from 1888. His Excellency the Governor, in 
acknowledging the communication stated that he " shares the regret of 
the Council that other more urgent claims on public moneys have pre- 
vented the provision of funds for the extension of the Museum." The 
Council hope that ere long the revenue of the Island will admit of 
provision being made for carrying out the long-contemplated extension. 
Journals. 
One number of the Journal has been published during the year 
(Vol. XVII., No. 52, 1901). It contains, in addition to the Proceedings 
of the Council and the Annual General Meeting, the following Paper : — 
" Supplementary Paper on the Monumental Remains of the Dutch 
East India Company in Ceylon," by F. H. de Vos. 
Arch^ological. 
Mr. H. 0. P. Bell, Archaeological Commissioner, has kindly supplied 
the following summary of Archaeological research during 1902 : — 
The Archaeological Survey continued operations in 1902 at Anu- 
radhapura, Sigiriya, and Polonnaruwa. From January 1 Mr. J. Still 
was appointed to succeed Mr. C. E. Dashwood as Assistant to the 
Archaeological Commissioner. Concurrent field work was thus again 
rendered practicable at two centres during much of the year. 
A nurddliapura. 
EuimnveU Area. — South of the Ruwanveli Dagaba are still to be found 
a few scattered sites, marked by pillar stumps, which have not yet 
been excavated. These isolated ruins are dotted about the Residency 
grounds, the premises of Government clerks, and the open spaces 
adjoining the " Sacred Road." 
Mctha Pali Alms Hall. — One of these detached ruins, an extensive 
site, roughly pillared, was exploited in the past year, and has fortunately 
