Minutes of Proceedings. xix 



legs, and pink papillae above, individuals with twenty-two pairs being 

 twice as numerous as those with twenty-one pairs in both sexes. It 

 is to be noted that in the Cape as well as in the extra African species, 

 the number of the pairs of legs is constant for the species when not 

 exceeding twenty, and variable when above that number. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, August 26, 1896. 

 Mr. W. H. Finlay, M.A., F.E.A.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Charles Currey, Mr. C. H. Tredgold, and the Hon. J. D. 

 Hugo, M.L.C., were duly elected ordinary members. 



The undermentioned presents were announced, and the thanks of 

 the Society voted to the donors : 



The American Anthropologist, Vol. IX., Nos. 1-5. 



Eeport of National Academy of Sciences, Washington, 1895. 



Keport of 5th Tuskegee Negro Conference, 1896 (Papers of John 

 Slater Fund, No. 8). 



Transactions of Wisconsin Academy of Science, Vol. X., 1894-5. 



Bulletin of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Nos. 62, 63. 



Bulletin of U.S. National Museum, No. 48. 



Proceedings of American Philosophical Society, No. 148, 149. 



Proceedings of California Academy of Sciences, Vol. V., Parts 

 1 and 2. 



La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 310. 



Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, Band 

 IX., Nos. 1-4; X., Nos. 1-4. 



Smithsonian Eeport, U.S. National Museum, 1893. 



Proceedings of U.S. National Museum, Vol. XVII., 1894. 



Professor Holm proceeded to make a few experiments illustrative 

 of the Eontgen rays. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater then read Dr. Schonland's paper on some 

 supposed Bushman inscriptions and rock-carvings found by him in 

 Bechuanaland. 



Dr. Schonland stated that the drawings had been recently dis- 

 covered at Vryburg, and the peculiarity of them was that, instead of 

 being, as usual, simply representations of animals, they were designs 

 which seemed to indicate the existence of some kind of writing 

 among the Bushmen hitherto entirely unsuspected. The drawings 

 were found on Mostert's farm, about fourteen miles north-west of 



