Minutes of Proceedings. xvii 



Mr. D. C. F. Moodie's paper on "The Ethnology of the Zulus" 

 was then read. 



Mr. Selous (a visitor) remarked that the accounts of old forts, 

 buildings, &c., given in many books by South African travellers must 

 be received with great caution. He said that stone walls were to be 

 found everywhere in Mashonaland, and he felt sure they had been 

 built by the Mashonas to enclose and protect their kraals. They had 

 pieces let in of a peculiar pattern which was also carved by the 

 Mashonas on their knives. 



After some further remarks by Dr. Marloth and Mr. Triraen the 

 ithanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Moodie for his paper. 



Ordinary Mo7ithly Meeting, 

 Wednesday, February 29, 1888. 



Mr. W. H. FiNLAY, M.A., F.R.A.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following presents were announced and the thanks of the 

 Society voted to the donors : 



Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, 



Vol. XX, 1886. 

 Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 



1887, No. 4. 

 Prodromus of the Zoolegy of Victoria. Decade XV. 

 Smithsonian Report, 1885, Part I, 



Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. V., 



Nos. 7&8. 



Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. Ill, Nos. 

 11 & 12. 



Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. II, Nos. 

 6 & 7. 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Nos. 124 

 & 125. 



Annual Report of the Department of Mines, N.S. Wales, 1886. 

 Oeology of the Vegetable Creek Tin -Mining Field, New England 



District, N.S. Wales. 

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