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phase of transition with the hieratic style of Egypt. A figure in particular 
is remarkable. It is a woman sitting with one leg stretched at full length, 
and the other bent ; on the latter stands a child taking the breast. Around 
are numerous figures of men, and hunting scenes as well, but the woman 
is of larger size than the other figures. The aspect of the whole can 
almost justify a suspicion of symbolism, i.e. maternity, and this surmise 
receives strength from the fact that, in the same scenes, trees are repre- 
sented which plainly represent Phoenix palms. A human figure stands 
under one, while on another a bird is perched. There is no mistaking the 
importance of these reproductions. It is not any longer the hunter whose 
conceptions are focused on game. It is a picture " de genre," may be, 
but one that denotes an evolution towards a much higher mental stage 
than that which led to the pictographs of the more southern parts of 
the Union. 
The following papers were read : — 
1. ''A Proof by Elementary Methods, without Complex Quantities, that 
every Algebraic Function (with Real Coefficients) has Factors of the Form 
x"" — px + q (^J.greal)," by Professor Eoseveare. 
2. " On Malet's Proof that every Equation has Roots, Real or Imaginary 
equal in Number to its Degree," by Professor Roseveare. 
Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 
July 15, 1914. 
The President, Dr. L. Peringuey, was in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were confirmed. 
Dr. W. A. Jolly was elected Hon. General Secretary. 
Mr. J. HuTCHEON was elected a member. 
Professor Roseveare was nominated for election as Member. 
Professor R. B. Young was nominated by the Council for election as 
Fellow. 
" Note on Palaeolithic Implements of Large Size found in the Precincts 
of Cape Town City," by L. Peringuey. 
The palaeoliths exhibited are mostly of very large size and made of 
slate indurated by contact with the granite. They were discovered by the 
Exhibitor on the lower part of the talus of Signal Hill, within stone-throw 
of the houses built in this locality. It may be contended that natural 
agencies could have produced this amygdaloid form were it not for a few 
examples of '* bouchers" found contiguously, and in which the artefact is 
patent The locality is about 350 feet from the raised beach ledge which 
