No. 55.— 1904.] PROCEEDINGS. 
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COUNCIL MEETINa. 
Golomho Museum, November 14, 1904. 
Present : 
The Hon. Mr. J. Ferguson, C.M.a., P.R.C.I., President, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. A. J. Chalmers, M.D., P.R.C.S. ( Mr. A. M. G-unasekara, Mudaliyar . 
Mr. P. Freudenberg, J.P. | Mr. A. Willey* M. A., D.Sc, F.R.S. 
Mr. J. Harward, M.A., and Mr. Gr. A. Joseph, Honorary Se cretaries. 
Business. 
1. Read and confirmed Minutes of last Council Meeting held on 
September 1, 1904. 
2. Resolved the election of the following Candidate : — 
Mr. R. C. Proctor, Interpreter ( Frank Modder. 
Mudaliyar : recommended by \ Gerard A. Joseph. 
3. Laid on the table a Paper entitled " An Account of the Pre- 
paration and Use of Arrack and Toddy," by Mudaliyar Arthur 
Jayawardana. 
Resolved, — That Mudaliyar Jayawardana be thanked for forwarding 
the Paper to the Society, but he be informed that the Council 
regret not being able to accept it. 
4. Laid on the table a Paper entitled " Mr. Isaac Augustus Rumpf 
by Mr. F. H. de Vos. 
Resolved,--That the Paper be referred to Mr. J. P. Lewis for 
report. 
5. Laid on the table Circular No. 128 containing Mudaliyar W. F. 
Gunawardh ana's Paper entitled " A Note on Rajasinha I.," with the 
opinions of the gentlemen to whom the Paper was referred. 
Resolved, — That the Paper be accepted for reading and publication. 
6. Laid on the table a Paper, by Mr. T. B. Pohath Kehelpannala , 
entitled " A Bhumipatre granted to the Disava of Uva in Saka 1736 
(1814 A.D.)," with the opinion of Mudaliyar A. M. G-unasekera, to 
whom it was referred to for further report. 
Resolved,— That in the opinion of the Council the Paper is not of 
sufficient interest for publication in the Society's Journal, and that it 
be returned to the writer, and he be thanked for forwarding it to the 
Society. 
