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implements, arts, and daily life of the South African native tribes 
(Bushmen, Kalahari tribes, Bechuana, Matabele, Matoka, etc.), and the 
life-size figures photographed exhibit both anatomical accuracy and 
much artistic skill. 
In a letter to the Museum transmitting these photographs 
(September 20, 1893), Dr. Holub desires that they may be conveyed to 
the Society with the expression of his most profound esteem. He adds 
that a similar set has been graciously accepted by her Majesty the 
Queen, and that he has sent others to the Zoological Society of London, 
the African Ethnological Congress at Chicago, and the United States 
Agricultural Department at Washington. 
An idea of the magnitude of the interesting exhibition thus 
illustrated may be had from Dr. Holub’s statement that the cost of 
mounting the specimens, of showcases, and incidental matters amounted 
to £12,000. The Society will be interested in hearing that Dr. Holub 
contemplates another South African expedition in the beginning of next 
year, and that he proposes to present to the South African Museum 
some of his zoological specimens, and also some large showcases. 
Mr. A. W. RoBerts’ paper, entitled ‘Central Paths of Solar Eclipses 
visible in South Africa as Total or Annular Eclipses during the Twentieth 
Century,’ was then read. | 
Dr. MARLOTH made some additional remarks about the height of 
Matrosberg ; new observations, independent of the former mace by 
Mr. Meiring, have enabled him to state that Matrosberg is, roughly 
speaking, 600 feet higher than the Winterhoek. 
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 
Wednesday, February 28, 1894. 
Mr. R. Maruiortu, Ph.D., M.A., President, in the Chair. 
The undermentioned presents were announced, and the thanks of the 
Society voted to the donors: 
Observations of Transit of Venus, 1874, made at Stations in N.S. 
Wales. 
The American Anthropologist, Vol. VI., Nos. 3 and 4. 
Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1893, 
Nos. 2 and 3. . 
Catalogue of a Stratigraphical Collection of Canadian Rocks prepared 
for Chicago Exhibition (G. 8. of Canada). 
Annual Report of Geological Survey of Canada, Vol. V., Parts 1 
and 2, and maps, 1890-91. 
