No. 54.— 1903.] PROCEEDINGS. 141 
COUNCIL MEETING, 
Colombo Museum^ October 8, 1908, 
Present : 
His Excellency the Lieutenant-G-overnor, President, in the Chair. 
Mr. H. White, CCS. 
Dr. A. Willey, M.A., D.Sc. Lon., 
F.R.S. 
Mr. C Drieberg, B.A., F.H.A.S. 
Mr. C M. Fernando, B.A., LL.B. 
Mr. A. M. Gunasekara, Mudaliyar, 
The Hon. Mr.'S. C Obeyesekere. 
Mr. F. C Roles, Honorary Treasurer. 
Mr. J. Harward, M.A., and Mr. C A. Joseph, Honorary Secretaries. 
Business. 
1. Read and conj&rmed Minutes of last Council Meeting held on 
June 22, 1903. 
2. Considered the election of the following Member : — 
H. R. Dobree : recommended by | ^ ^ Joslph 
3. Laid on the table a letter from the Honorary Secretary, Asiatic 
Society of Bengal, informing the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic 
Society that Members of this Society have the right to attend General 
Meetings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
Resolved, — That the receipt of the letter be acknowledged with 
thanks and announced at a General Meeting. 
4. Laid on the table, with correspondence. Paper entitled Temporal 
and Spiritual History of Ceylon, compiled by Rev. Fernao de Queiros, 
S.J., of the Province of Goa," translated from the Portuguese by Mr. 
F. H. de Vos. 
Resolved,— That Mr. F. H. de Vos be informed that Mr. D. W. 
Ferguson, to whom the Paper was referred to for annotation, has 
returned it saying that he cannot do it, and that certain portions of 
Mr. Ferguson's letter to Mr. Bell be quoted in writing to Mr. de Vos. 
5. Laid on the table Circular No. 181, containing the opinions of 
Members of Council re the translation of Valentyn, vol. V., Ceylon. 
Considered the question of asking help from Government towards 
the translation. At the request of the Chairman it was decided that 
the matter be brought up again before the next Council Meeting, and 
in the meantime that Mr. Ferguson be asked on what terms he would 
be prepared to undertake to translate and edit " Barros " and " De 
Couto," Ceylon. 
