The Report having been adoptel,-It was resolved, that Mr. Skeen be authorised to engage Compositors at the Society's cost to hasten forward the Journal.

The Secretary and Librarian were authorised to purchase any new works on Ceylon, and to submit any others to the Committee for purchase.

The following Gentlemen were then ballotted for, and declared elected as Members of this Society ::-

The Secretary laid on the table letters from the Cape Society of Natural History, and the New Zealand and Batavian Society, and it was resolved that he be instructed to reply to them forthwith and to forward copies of the Society's Journal.

OF THE

CEYLON BRANCH

OF THE

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY,

1858-59.

VOLUME III.

No. 11.

EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY.

# DESIGN OF THE SOCIETY IS TO INSTITUTE AND PROMOTE ENQUIRIES INTO THE HISTORY,
ELIGION, LITERATURE, ARTS, AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE PRESENT AND FORMER
INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND, WITH ITS GEOLOGY, MINEROLOGY, ITS CLIMATE
AND METEOROLOGY, ITS BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY."

COLOMBO:

PRINTED AT THE "CEYLON OBSERVER PRESS.

Donations to the Library during the year 1857 :

Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vols. VII and VIII.
Smithsonian Report for 1854.

Eighth Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution.

Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus.

Bombay Asiatic Society's Journal for July 1857.

Same for October 1844.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, No. XV. part 2.

Two Maps of Assyria and of ancient Nimroud.

Atlas of Geological Papers of Western India.

Geological Papers on Western India.

Constitution and Bye laws of the New Orleans Academy of

Sciences.

Handbook of Sinhalese Conversation, presented by the Rev.
C. Alwis.

Donations through the Government of Ceylon during 1857 :

Exhibitor's Prospectuses of Exhibition of 1851, 16 vols.
Catalogue of Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855.
Catalogue of Works on the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Jury Reports on the Exhibition of 1855.

First Report of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851.

Third

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do

do

Report of the Management of the British part of the Paris

Exhibition.

Report of the Madras Exhibition of Raw Products.

Madras Exhibition Catalogue 1855.

Official Catalogue of the French Exhibition.

Report of the Cape Exhibition in 1855.

Report of the Committee thereon.

3 Certificates for the Island of Ceylon, by the Paris Exhibition.

4 Medals-three Bronze and one Silver.

OF THE

CEYLON BRANCH

OF THE

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY,

1858-59.

VOLUME III.

No. 11.

EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY.

THE DESIGN OF THE SOCIETY IS TO INSTITUTE AND PROMOTE ENQUIRIES INTO THE HISTORY.
RELIGION, LITERATURE, ARTS, AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE PRESENT AND FORMER
INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND, WITH ITS GEOLOGY, MINEROLOGY, ITS CLIMATE
AND METEOROLOGY, ITS BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. "

COLOMBO:

PRINTED AT THE "CEYLON OBSERVER" PRESS.