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is now ttie Green Point Common. These raised beaches will probably 
prove the means of obtaining ultimately a key to the age of many of the 
present geological features. The Exhibitor has no doubt whatever that the 
objects exhibited are some of the oldest yet recorded in Europe or Africa. 
It is evident that the huge almond-shaped artefact cannot be considered 
as a weapon or a tool. Man in Chellean time was not of the size of the 
Cro-Magnon man. Two theories may account for it. Similar huge 
Chellean implements have been found in Belgium, and have been con- 
sidered by fervents of the Eutot school to be objects of worship to brute 
force." The author, however, opines that the huge implement, 44 cm. 
long by 21 cm. wide, is merely the result of practice at " knapping." 
" Note on Grooved Stone Slabs, used by the Strand-Looper-San 
Aboriginals," by L. Peringuey. 
Search in undisturbed kitchenmidden deposits found so numerously 
within a 60-mile radius of the littoral of the Union, seldom fails to reveal 
the presence of flat stones having a shallow artificial depression in the 
centre. Nor are these stones always restricted to this area. The depres- 
sion is often found on each side. Speculations as to their having been 
used for sharpening blades of assegais or similar weapons are of course 
untenable. More likely was the theory of the stone having been utilized 
as a cooking-stone, the depression to receive the gravy. The proposition 
that they were utilized for pounding shell-fish does certainly not account 
for the depression, etc. The example exhibited throws a true light on the 
object of these depressions. Notice the red pigment adhering still to the 
stone, and also to the muller exhibited with it. They were not found 
together, but their object is patent. On this depression was oxide of iron 
or other pigments ground and prepared with fatty or resinous adhesive 
substances. This slab comes from a very much disturbed " shelter." In 
another shelter in the same locality was found a funeral stone bearing 
paintings of three men. On the face of one are distinctly seen red bands 
symmetrically disposed. The face is executed in white, the better to show 
the stripes. The ground pigment was then disposed on palettes which are 
as like prehistoric Egyptian palettes as possible. Paint was then as much 
used in physical decoration as on mural decorations. Little by little we 
are learning more and more of the mind and culture of the "San" 
aboriginals from their relics. 
Exhibition of Marine Invertebrates, by K. H. Barnard. 
The discovery of the siliceous sponge, Begadrella phoenix, from the 
deep water off East London, fills a gap in the hitherto known distribution 
of the species. Aega monophthalma and Epimeria coimigera were recorded 
for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere — a fact which bears on the 
theory of Bipolarity. A sponge [Tragosia infundihuliformis), a gastropod 
(Nassa trifasciata), an echinoderm (Echinocardium flavesce^is), and the 
