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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [V^OL. XVIII. 
Linguistic Survey of India ; Archaeological Survey, Bengal Circle ; 
Victoria Public Library of Western Australia ; Archaeological Survey 
of Madras and Coorg ; Secretary to Government of India ; Mr. H. R. 
Nevill, I.C.S. ; Dr. H. Ethe, Ph. D., M.A. ; Mr. C. Drieberg, B.A., 
F.H. A.S. ; Mr. F. R. Schuller ; the Government Oriental MS. Library 
of Madras ; Archaeological Surve}^ of Western India. 
For valuable exchanges received during the year the Society is 
indebted to : the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia ; the 
Anthropological Society of Bombay ; Tijdchrif tvoor Indische Taal- 
Land en Yolkenkunde, Batavia ; the Royal University of Upsala ; the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia ; the Smithsonian Insti- 
tute, U.S.A. ; the Bombay Branch of the R.A.S. ; the Buddhist Text 
Society of India ; U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 
U.S.A. ; U. S. Geological Survey, U.S.A. ; the Field Columbian 
Museum ; the State Archives, Netherlands ; the Bureau of Education, 
U.S.A. ; Anthropologische Gessellchaft, Berlin ; Batavia-asch Genoots- 
chap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Batavia ; Deutschen Morgenla- 
dischen Sessellchaft Leipzig, Germany ; the American Oriental 
Society ; the Royal Society of New South Wales, Australia ; the 
California Academy of Sciences, San Fransisco, U.S.A. ; La Societe 
Imperiale Des Naturalistes de Moscow, Russia ; the Asiatic Society 
of Japan ; the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland ; the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal ; K. K. Naturhistorischen Hopmuseums, 
Austria ; Musee Guimet, Paris ; Societe Zoologique, Paris ; John 
Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. ; the Geological Society of 
London ; the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ; 
the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada ; the Royal 
Colonial Institute, London ; the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic 
Society ; the Royal Society of Victoria, Australia ; Koninklijk Insti- 
tuit voor de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie, 
Holland ; the Royal Geographical Society of Australia : the Korea 
Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 
Accommodation. 
The Council wish to direct particular attention to the want of 
accommodation for the Library, which has been repeatedly pointed out 
in preceding Annual Reports during the past seventeen years. 
The want of room for the proper housing of books is severely felt. 
All the book-cases are quite full ; and there is no room available for 
more cases. At present many valuable publications are stored av^ay 
in different portions of the Museum building, as there is no room 
available for keeping the books in the Society's Library. The Library 
is not capable of expansion, and its usefulness is crippled by want of 
accommodation. 
In view of the congested condition of the Libraries of the Society 
and Museum, the Council trust that provision will be made bj^Govern- 
nment shortly to admit of the carrying out of the long-contemplated 
extension of the Colombo Museum. 
Journal. 
One number of the Journal was published during the year (Vol. 
XVIII., No. 54, 1903). It contains, in addition to the Proceedings of 
the Council and the Annual General Meeting, the following Papers : — 
(1) " Two Ola Grants of the Seventeenth Century.'^ by Mr. T. B. 
Pohath. 
