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3. Read the following communication from the Honorary Secretary, 
Asiatic Society of Bengal : — 
Asiatic Society of Bengal, 57, Park street, 
Calcutta, September 9, 1903. 
The Honorary Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 
to the Honorary Secretary, Ceylon Branch of the 
Royal Asiatic Society, Colombo. 
Sir, — I HAVE the honour to inform you that at a Meeting of the 
Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal held on August 26, 1903, 
it was decided that the Members of the Bombay, Madras, Ceylon, and 
Singapore Branches of the Royal Asiatic Society, when in Calcutta, 
should have the right of attending the Society's G-eneral Meetings. I 
write to request you to be so good as to announce this arrangement to 
your Society. I am to add that the Society's General Meetings are 
held on the first Wednesday of every month, excepting September and 
O^^ohev. I have, &c., 
J. Macfarlane, 
Honorary Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
4. Mr. Harward read the — 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1903. 
The Council of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 
have the honour to submit the following Report for the year 1903 : — • 
Meetings. 
Two General Meetings of the Society have been held during the 
year, at which the following Papers were read and discussed : " Two 
Ola Grants of the 17th Century," with Text, Translation, and Notes, by 
T. B. Pohath Kehelpannala ; An account of King Kirti Sri's Em- 
bassy to Siam in 1672 Saka (1750 a.d.)," by P. E. Pieris, M.A., CCS,; 
" Dramatic Literature and Poetry of the Siigihalese," by W. Arthur de 
Silva, J.P.; " Three Funerals of Ceylon Dutch Officials in the 18th 
Century " (read some extracts only), by F. H. de Yos, Barrister-at- 
Law ; Notes on a Dutch Medal," by P. E. Pieris, M.A., CCS. 
Besides the above the following Papers were accepted during the 
year for reading and publication : " Correspondence between Raja 
Sinha II. and the Dutch," by D. W. Ferguson ; " Second Supplemen- 
tary Paper on Monumental Remains of the Dutch East India Company 
in Ceylon," by F. H. de Vos, Barrister -at- Law ; " A Note on the PalaBo- 
graphy of Ceylon," by C M. Fernando, Crown Counsel. 
Members. 
During the past year thirteen new Members were elected, viz., 
Pandit Savari Rayan, J. Samaradivakara, Professor C Duroiselle, 
Rev. don W. J. Wijesinha, Venerable Dharma Kirti Sri Dharmarama, 
J. Still, A. Anson, A. van der Poorten, J. B. Carruthers, F.L.S., 
F. Lushington, A. K. Coomaraswamy, B.Sc, F.L.S., &c., A. J. Wick- 
ramasinha, and H. R. Dobree. 
One Member resigned, viz., A. de A. Senewiratne. 
Sir J. A. Swettenham, K.CM.G., and Advocate J. C Walter Pereira 
have become Life Members. 
The Society now has on its roll 198 Members, including 26 Life 
Members and 10 Honorary Members. 
