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with the dkection of the wind at L'Agulhas. From a consideration of 
the various conditions, which fell under 26 heads, and which were 
w^orked out daily during five complete years, it was found possible to 
construct a table for prediction purposes. This was applied to the rain- 
fall for the year 1908, and the element of error under each condition of 
barometer was (1) when the pressure was decreasing generally, 5*23 
per cent., and (2) when the pressure was increasing generally, about 
11 per cent., proving the argument that it is possible to predict rainfall 
over the district from the data suggested. 
Ordinaey Monthly Meeting. 
June 16, 1909. 
Dr. R. Marloth in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Secretary, Dr. L. PsRiNauEY, exhibited a newly discovered post- 
office" stone. Major-General Scobell kindly allowed the museum authori- 
ties to take a cast of a ''post office" stone embedded in one of the castle 
walls. While at work it was found that there was another stone also 
built into the wall in another part of the castle, and a successful cast 
of this was taken. 
The latter stone bears two inscriptions. The upper reads : Anto 
Hipon. Ma(ster) of the Hector. Boun(d) Home, Januari, 1600, O.P. 
Below is a better finished inscription, as follows : Ant. Hippon, 
Ma(ster) of the Dragon, 28 December, 1607. 
In a corner in smaller type appear the words : Anthony H. 
It would thus appear that the inscriptions record two voyages by the 
same master. They are the oldest on record. The most ancient one 
hitherto known is a Danish one dated 1614. 
Mr. A. R. Walker exhibited Dinosaurian remains which he recently 
obtained at Fouriesburg in the O.R.C. They comprised a complete five- 
toed foot and a complete fore-limb ; also replicas in plaster of reptilian 
footprints, one large and three-toed. The original of the latter was 
obtained from Tsikoane, Basutoland, and occurred at the junction of the 
Cave Sandstone and the Red Beds. 
The Secretary read two communications from Dr. S. Schonland : — 
1. " On some Points in the Morphology and Biology of a New Species 
of Haworthia." The author gives a full description of Haworthia trun- 
cata, Schonl. — the only species of Haworthia with strictly distichous 
arrangement of leaves. The leaves are to a large extent underground, 
