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The Rev. Gr. H. R. Fisk read a note about the tortoise exhibited by 

 him at the meeting held on June 27 last. It had been ascertained 

 that the tortoise referred to was not a new species but merely an 

 anomalous species of Testudo semiserrata. 



The Rev* Dr. Kolbe then read Mr. Hammond Tooke's paper on 

 " The Star-lore of the S.A. Natives," to which was appended some 

 notes by Dr. Kolbe senior. 



The Rev. Dr. Kolbe stated that the Damaras have a word for 

 Cemets, viz., '' the long thing which makes people enquire " ; the milky 

 way they call " rising steam." They once knew something about 

 meteors. The Ven. Archdeacon Lightfoot said that the coloured 

 races in Cape Town have no traditions about the stars. 



The Rev. G-. H. R. Fisk said that every endeavour should be made 

 to secure photographs, &c., of old Bushman paintings and specimens 

 of remains. 



The Rev. G. Stegmann had tried to get specimens from caves in 

 Oudtshoorn. In several cases, at a depth of four or five feet he found 

 ivory arrow-heads stained blue, and a bar of horn, bone needles, pots, 

 teeth of animals, a pipe with three bowls running into one stem, made 

 of clay. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Tooke and Dr. Kolbe closed the proceedings. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, November 28, 1888. 



The Rev. Professor Foot in the Chair. 



The undermentioned gentlemen were duly elected Ordinary 

 Members of the Society : 



Mr. Alexander Mair, Mr. W. J. Murphy, Mr. D. C. F. Moodie. 



The Rev. G-. H. R. Fisk exhibited a snake and a tortoise. 



The Secretary read Mr. Hammersley-Heenan's paper ^' Ou the 

 -action of Teredo Navalis, &c., on the piles of Port Elizabeth Jetty." 



Mr. D. C. F. Moodie read a paper on " The Northern Gold Fields 

 of South Africa," the completion of which was postponed till next 

 ^meeting:. 



