PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
APRIL, 1866. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
Thursday, April 5. — Mr. W. Sanders, F.R.S., President, in 
the chair. 
The Hon. Secretary announced the election, by the Council, of Mr. 
George Morris and Mr. Edward J. Kingdom as ordinary members, and of 
Mr. W. Lonsdale as a corresponding member. 
The report of the Council respecting the Printing of the Proceedings 
in a more permanent form than the newspaper slips, was brought forward 
by the Hon. Secretaries. It recommended that they should be printed in 
pamphlet form, demy 8vo. size, uniform with several scientific serials, and 
issued monthly. Also, that all proceedings from the commencement of 
1866, should be re-printed in this form, and that, for the present, no 
special means be taken to meet the increased expense. 
Mr. H. K. Jordan proposed, and Mr. S. H. Swayne seconded, the 
adoption of this recommendation, which was carried unanimously. 
Mr. Turner and Mr. E. J. Gibbons were appointed to audit the Trea- 
surer's accounts, before the next annual meeting. 
Dr. Beddoe exhibited specimens of rude flint and stone arrowheads 
found in a sand-drift at the mouth of the Kowie river, Cape Colony. No 
other flint was found in that part of Africa, and these implements were 
not used by the present inhabitants of the country. He also showed a 
piece of rude Bushmen's pottery, found in a cave not now used, in an 
uninhabited part of the country. 
The President remarked that the majority of these pieces looked like 
