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OrpINARY Montuuy MEETING. 
November 1, 1899. 
L. PéRINGUEY, President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Dr. E. B. FuLLER’s motion, ‘‘ That the Council of the Society be 
instructed to take up the question of the founding of a Zoological 
Garden in Cape Town,” was carried unanimously. 
Captain A. KE. Pakeman, East London, was nominated for election 
as an ordinary member. . 
The following gentlemen were elected ordinary members: Messrs. 
J. EF. QuEKET, G. M. Crarx, and W. G. Mason. 
Dr. Maruoru exhibited various Diptera, Hemiptera, and Coleoptera. 
which he had caught in the snow near the summit of the Matroos- 
berg in October. He had also found diatoms, and the eggs and. 
larvee of insects. So far he had no proof, however, that any insects 
were confined to such regions. 
The PREsIDENT said that true Alpine forms of insects had been 
found by M. Raffray in Abyssinia, and that they were known on. 
Kilima Njaro, but not further south. 
The PResiDENT exhibited a clay pot of native manufacture recently 
presented to the South African Museum by Mr. Wood, of Hast. 
London. The pot is not of Kaffir make, but might be referred to 
those natives who have left their traces in the ‘‘ Kitchen-middens.”’ 
The Secretary read a paper by the Hon. J. D. Huao, of 
Worcester, on ‘ Vitalism.”’ 
Drs. Martotn and HurcHrEon expressed their interest in Mr. 
Hugo’s paper. 
OrpinaRyY Montuty MEETING. 
November 29, 1899. 
L. P&RINGUEY, President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
J. H. C. Krapont, Esq., B.A., Concordia, and R. Broom, Esq., 
M.D., B.Sc., Port Elizabeth, were nominated for election as ordinary 
members. 
Captain A. E. Paxreman, East London, was elected an ordinary 
member. 
Dr. J. D. FE. Grucurist exhibited a number of marine specimens, 
including a new species of Hippocampus from Knysna, a new 
Anchovy from Zwartkops River and Saldanha Bay, and a new 
Crustacean. 
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