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bodkin, and two diminutive models in wood of a gun and a spade, 

 three and two inches long respectively, found near or under a heap of 

 ashes on a krantz at Brandy Kraal, Sunderland district, by Master 

 M. Nightingale. The shape of the spade, he was informed, is more 

 that in use forty years ago than the present one. Further, he 

 exhibited several small stone implements, found in digging a well in 

 the Clanwilliam district. Among these implements (one which, by 

 the by, seemed to be made of silex), were two beads, one of which 

 was a small jagged leaden bullet, perforated, so as to be used as a bead. 

 Now, they knew that these two districts had not been occupied by 

 Colonists for a great length of time, and the specimens he had ex- 

 hibited would seem to substantiate the theory that stone implements 

 were used up to the end of the last century. 



The President said that in consequence of the steps taken by him 

 in connection with the then Colonial Secretary three years back, with 

 the view of obtaining from the Civil Commissioners all information 

 about Bushmen paintings, &e., to be found in their respective districts, 

 a great deal of information had been received and tabulated, and a 

 list submitted to gentlemen moving a good deal about the country 

 had led to a good many more additions. He thought that the next 

 step was now to act in co-operation with the Photographic Society, 

 to have these Bushmen drawings photographed on the same size of 

 plates, and to agree to draw rules and regulations that would make 

 the publication of uniform size and type. He would endeavour to 

 have this done. 



Mr. A. W. Eoberts's papers on ' The Latitude of Lovedale ' and 

 ' Variation of Lacaille 5861 ' were read. 



Dr. Purcell exhibited some examples of Pcripatus, a prototype of 

 the Arthropoda, linking, perhaps, the worms with the insects. The 

 number of species described are four. He has, however, found no 

 less than five new South African species of Peripatus : (1) \\qw Peri- 

 patus, from the Knysna, with seventeen pairs of claw-bearing legs, 

 and of a black colour above ; (2) Peripatus/'' from Table Mountain, 

 with eighteen pairs of legs, very like P. balfouri, Sedgw., but the 

 terminal pair of legs is as large in the male as in the female, and 

 pink papillae occur on the back ; (3) new Peripatus, from Kalk Bay, 

 very like the last, but all the papillae on the back are deep black ; 

 (4) new Pcripatus, from Knysna, with twenty pairs of legs, and 

 reddish brown, with three longitudinal black bands above ; (5) new 

 Peripatus, from the Cape, with twenty-one and twenty-two pairs of 



* This form has since been fomid to be P. balfouri, Sedgw. 



