Minutes of Proceedings. xxv 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, October 28, 1896. 



Present:— Mr. T. Muir, LL.D., M.A., F.K.S.E., President, in 

 the Chair, and twelve members. 



Professor Morrison, Dr. Veale, Dr. Anderson, Dr. Stark, and 

 Mr. Sydney Cowper were nominated as ordinary members. 



Hon. W. P. Schreiner, Q.C., and Mr. C. Mayer were duly 

 elected ordinary members of the Society. 



The undermentioned presents were announced, and the thanks of 

 the Society voted to the donors : 



La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 312. 



Journal of Manchester Geographical Society, Vol. X., Nos: 9-12 ; 

 Vol. XL, Nos. 9-12. 



Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 

 1896, No. 1. 



Actes de la Societe Scientifique du Chili, Vol. II., Part 5, Vol. VI., 

 Part 1. 



Congreso Cientifico Jeneral, Chilenode, 1894. 



It was resolved that a special meeting for the consideration of the 

 proposed new rules should be held on the night of the next ordinary 

 meeting. 



The President stated that in regard to the Bushman paintings 

 the Photographic Society had appointed a Committee of five, who 

 had met another Committee of five of the Philosophical Society, 

 and the first draft as to the mode of photographing the Bushman 

 paintings had been drawn up. This had been sent around to the 

 members for suggestions and corrections. When the draft was 

 returned the members would have another meeting, and finally put 

 it into shape for publication. 



The President exhibited two interesting photographs of Bushman 

 paintings in the Clanwilliam district. They were on a mountain only 

 reached with danger to life, and by creeping through holes and 

 jumping over deep crevices. 



Justice Buchanan drew attention to the fact that at a previous 

 meeting, held at Observatory, he had mentioned some five Bushman 

 paintings at Cala, in the Transkei, near St. Mark's. There was not 

 only a cave of them, but there were walls extending for hundreds of 

 yards covered with them. They were in various colours, one of 

 them representing a scene very much like the photograph exhibited, 

 which seemed to picture a white man running away from the in- 



