No. 63.— 1910.] 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
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with the family of the late Mr. C. M. Fernando, M.A., LL.M., 
and to express its sense of the loss which the Society has sus- 
tained by his death : — 
"By the death of Mr. C. M. Fernando, M.A., LL.M., Senior 
Crown Counsel, Ceylon, this Society has lost one of its most 
valued Members. He joined the Society in 1889, and was a 
Member of the Council from 1896, and was the senior Member. 
He was a regular attendant at Meetings, and to the part which 
he took in its discussions and to his contributions, the Proceedings 
of Meetings and the Journals of this Society owe much of their 
interest and value." 
To the Journals of this Society Mr. Fernando contributed the 
following Papers : — 
(1) " The Music of Ceylon," No. 45, 1894. 
(2) " The Inauguration of the King in Ancient Ceylon," 
No. 47, 1896. 
(3) "A Note on the Palaeography of Ceylon," No. 55, 1904. 
(4) " Two Old Sinhalese Swords," No. 56, 1905. 
The Society has now on its roll 316 Members; of these, 33 are 
Life Members, 10 Honorary Members. 
Defaulters. 
The following names have been removed from the list of 
Members for non-payment of subscriptions : — A. W, Andree, 
G. W. Bibile, A. Chinniah, W. Jayawickrama, Pandit Gopi Nath, 
G. C. Lee, J. M. Weerasuriya. 
Publications. 
Two Numbers of the Journal, Vol. XX., No. 60, and Vol. XXL, 
No. 61, were published during the year. 
No. 60 consists of the valuable " History of Ceylon from the 
earliest times to 1600 a.d. as related by Joao de Barros and 
Diogo de Couto," specially translated and edited for the Society 
by Mr. Donald Ferguson, and forms Volume XX. of the Society's 
Journal. 
No. 61 contains, in addition to the Proceedings of the Coimcil 
and General Meetings, the following Papers : — • 
(1) "The Origin of the Tamil Velalas," translated by Mr. 
V. J. Tambipillai. 
(2) " Amongst the last Veddas," by Dr. Moszkowski. 
(3) " Notes on recent work among the Veddas," by Dr. C. G. 
Seligmann, M.D. 
(4) " Portuguese Ceylon at the beginning of the Seventeenth 
Century : a Sketch," by Mr. P. E. Pieris, M.A., CCS. 
(5) " Sumptuary Laws and Social Etiquette of the Kandyans," 
by Mr. T. B. Paranatella. 
(6) " Kandyan Music," by Mr. S. D. Mahawalatenna. 
(7) " The lesser known Hills of the Batticaloa District and 
Lower Uva," by Mr. F, Lewis, F.L.S. 
