xlviii Proceedings of the South African Philosophical Society. 
OrpinaRy Montruty MEETING. 
February 6, 1901. 
T. Stewart, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
It was unanimously resolved on the motion of the Vice-President 
that the Society express its condolence, through His Excellency 
the Governor, with His Majesty the King on the death of our late 
Gracious Sovereign, Queen Victoria. 
The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed. 
The following gentlemen were nominated for election as ordinary 
members at the next meeting: Messrs. R. O. WynNE RoBERtTS, Cape 
Town, and T. N. Lesuie, Vereeniging, by Messrs. CoRSTORPHINE 
and PERINGUEY. 
The following gentlemen were elected ordinary members of 
the Society: Messrs. E. H. V. Menvinu, A.M.I.C.H., F.R.G.S., 
Johannesburg, and EK. Payne, Cape Town. 
Mr. KE. H. L. Scuwarz exhibited some photographs and copies 
of interesting Bushman paintings from Groot Riet River, near the 
boundary of the Ceres and Clanwilliam districts, on the road from 
the Cold Bokkeveld to Whupperthal. The drawings have been made 
on the face of a cliff overhanging a tributary of the Groot Riet River. 
There is no cave properly speaking, but the river has cut slightly 
into the cliff at the base, so as to form a shallow recess. The floor 
of the recess is some 20 feet above the present river level, and a fine 
Bushman pot (exhibited) was obtained here. The paintings them- 
selves are done in a great number of styles, by different people. 
They are in red paint, except for one brown and three black figures. 
One of the most important points is shown in the picture of a 
woman about to cut up a dead buck. The way she is holding the 
stone implement, namely, in the middle, confirms the evidence 
afforded by the drawings of Nieuwoudtville, which are in an entirely 
different style. Another interesting feature is the buck drive, where 
a number of buck are shown being driven into a pen, while two men 
are seen carrying a dead animal away. The tallies of those who 
drew in red paint were simple bars smeared in succession on the 
rock, sometimes over previous drawings, but those who drew in 
black used dots grouped into circles. 
A pallet for grinding paint was also shown. 
Mr. ScuateR pointed out that one of the photographs evidently 
represented the drawing of a white rhinoceros, an animal of whose 
occurrence so far south no written record has been preserved. 
The CHarrRMAN in thanking Mr. Schwarz on behalf of the Society 
