No. 55.— 1904.] 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
147 
The Council record with regret the death of the following Members 
of the Society, viz.: P. D. Anthonisz, M.D., M.A., C.M.G., &c., 
Mudaliyar K. J. A. Pohath, and Mr. N. Balasubaramaniyam, M.A., of 
Madras. 
Mudaliyar Pohath joined the Society in 1892. A note by him 
on Siriwardhanapurawas published in the Society's Proceedings for 1890. 
Mr. Pohath contributed some valuable notes to a Paper entitled The 
Identification of the Siriwardhanapura of the Mahawa^sa, Chapter 
LXXX.," by the Right Rev. R. S. Copleston, D.D., late President of 
the Society 
Library. 
The additions to the Library during the year, including parts of 
Periodicals, numbered 422. The Library is indebted for donations to the 
following : The Secretary of State for India ; the Colonial Secretary ; 
Mr. Francesco L. Pulle; the Plague Commission of India; Dr. A. Caroll; 
Messrs. A. K. Coomaraswamy ; Professor W. Geiger ; P. Arunachalam, 
C.C.S.; Bhikkhu Ananda Maitriya ; the Oberlin College, Ohio ; Dr. C. 
von Drathen ; the University of Colorado ; the American Museum 
of Natural History ; the Director of Public Instruction ; the Philo- 
sophical Society of Liverpool ; the Academy of Natural Sciences, 
Philadelphia ; John Hopkins University ; India Office Library ; 
L'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient revue Philologique, &c. ; Iowa 
Geological Survey ; the Archaeological Survey of Hurma ; and the 
Library of Congress, Washington. 
For valuable exchanges received during the year the Society is 
indebted to the following : The American Oriental Society ; the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia ; the Smithsonian Insti- 
tute ; Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; United States 
Department of Agriculture ; United States Geological Survey ] 
Field Columbian Museum ; the State Archives ; the Bureau of 
Education ; Bijdrajen tot-de Taal-Land en Volkenkunde van Neder- 
landsch-Indie, The Hague; K. K. Naturhistorischen Hof museums, 
Yienna ; the Musee Guimet, Paris ; Societe Zoologique, Paris ; Korea 
Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; Deutsche Morgenlandische 
Gessellschaft, Leipzig ; Asiatic Society of Japan ; the University 
of Upsala ; Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscow ; the 
Anthropological Society of Bombay ; the Anthropological Institute of 
Great Britain and Ireland ; the Indian Museum ; the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal ; John Hopkins University ; Geological Society of London ; 
the Royal Colonial Institute ; Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic 
Society ; the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia ; California 
Academy of Sciences ; Royal Society of New South Wales ; Royal 
Society of Victoria, Australia. 
Accommodation. 
In 1898 the Council invited the attention of Government to the 
eongested state of the Library and referred to the subject touched 
upon in the Annual Reports from 1888. His Excellency the Governor 
in reply then stated that he " shares the regret of the Council that 
other more urgent claims on public moneys have prevented the provi- 
sion of funds for the extension of the Museum." The Council hope 
that the extension of the Museum will shortly be undertaken, and by 
this means the necessary relief will be afforded. Want of room for 
shelf accommodation is proving a serious hindrance to the development 
and extension of the Library. 
