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Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 November 29, 1905. 

 Dr. J. C. Beattie in the Chair. 



Messrs. H. Kynaston and Professor K. B. Young were elected 

 Ordinary Members of the Society. 



Mr. L. Peringuey exhibited some fragments of Strand Looper 

 pottery, the rind of which bear a series of perforations ; such a style 

 of ornament was not known hitherto. 



Mr. E. Hutchins read a paper on the " Cyclical year, 1905, and 

 the coming season." 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 February 28, 1906. 

 Dr. J. C. Beattie, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. A. Caldecott, Johannesburg, was nominated by W. L. 

 Sclater and L. Peringuey as Ordinary Member. 



Mr. A. W. Eogers exhibited rock specimens showing the occur- 

 rence of glacial beds in the Griqua Town series of Hay. Flattened 

 and striated stones, whose peculiarities can at present only be 

 attributed to glacial agencies, occur in hard, ferruginous rock near the 

 top of the Griqua Town series in Hay. They are of various sizes, 

 from an inch or two up to 18 inches long. They consist of chert ; 

 a few grit pebbles are found, but as yet no granites or other igneous 

 rocks are known from those beds ; some hollows, now partly filled 

 with specular iron, may represent limestone fragments. The boulders 

 are scattered at wide intervals through the matrix in most cases, 

 though gravelly grits also occur. 



The glacial beds have been found at widely separated places in 

 Hay ; along both the east and west sides of the Ongeluk syncline, 

 near the Vlak Fontein syncline, the Lucas Dam syncline, and the 

 Juanana syncline ; in every case within 30 feet or so of the base of 

 the volcanic rocks overlying the Griqua Town series. 



Mr. A. L. Du Toit read a paper on " Under Water in South - 

 Eastern Bechuanaland." The term South-Eastern Bechuanaland is 

 used as including the divisions of Mafeking and Vryburg as far west- 

 wards as Kuruman. The country is gently undulating and fairly 

 well wooded, although there is little or no running water. Supplies 

 are obtained chiefly from wells, sometimes from dams. Water 



