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that of Carboniferous times. Hence it is that the Harts Eiver, a 
tributary of the Vaal, now flows for a distance of 100 miles in a 
channel considerably below the level of the main stream. The Karroo 
owes its peculiar type of scenery in part to its geological structure and 
in part to the prolonged nature of the erosion to which it has been 
subjected. 
Anniveesaey Meeting. 
April 21, 1909. 
Dr. A. J. Anderson, F.R.S.S.A., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read his Eeport : — 
The members of the Society consist of 40 Fellows and 160 Members. 
Six Meetings were held during the year, and the following papers 
read : — 
1. The Pelecypoda from Zululand," by E. B. Newton. 
2. " A New Variety of Ixodes ijilosus," by J. G. Neumann. 
3. "A Note on the Distribution and Hosts of Ixodes pilosus howardi," 
by C. W. Howard. 
4. " Transvaal Sea Level Temperature," by E. T. A. Innes. 
5. ''Some Investigations regarding ' Brak ' (Alkali)," by C, F. Juritz. 
6. ''Contribution to the African Flora," by H. Bolus and L. Kensit. 
7. " Preliminary Note on the Diurnal Variation of Level at Kimberley," 
by J. E. Sutton. 
8. " A Diplostigmatic Plant (Sebacea exocoides)," by E. Marloth. 
9. " Some New Species of Euphorbia from South Africa," by E. 
Marloth. 
10. " Descriptive Catalogue of the South African Coleoptera. Fam. 
Melo'idcB," by L. Peringuey. 
Page-proofs of these papers, which form Part I. of Vol. I. of the 
Transactions of the Royal Society, 334 pp., illustrated by 24 plates, have 
been passed, and will be in the hands of the Fellows and Members within 
six or seven weeks. 
The Society has also completed the publication of Vol. XVIII. of the 
Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, and Part IV. of 
the said volume, which is just out, contains the following papers : — 
" On Eock Engravings of Animals and the Human Figure found in 
South Africa," by L. Peringuey. 
" Earth Temperature at Kimberley," by J. E. Sutton. 
" Notes on the Bushmen of Basutoland," by S. S. Dornan, and a 
list of the contents of the 18 vols, issued by the Philosophical Society. 
