Minutes of Proceedings. 
XXV 
foot; C. J. SwiERSTRA, Pretoria, by L. Peringuey and E. M. Lightfoot ; 
A. E. V. Zealley, A.K.C.S., by A. E. Walker and L. Peringuey. 
A paper by Dr. T. Muir, " Borchard's Form of the Eliminant of Two 
Equations of the 7zth Degree," was taken as read. 
Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 
October 20, 1909. 
The President, S. S. Hough, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 
The President announced the names of persons recommended for 
Election as Council and Officers : S. S. Hough, President ; L. Crawford, 
Treasurer ; L. Peringuey, Secretary ; J. C. Beattie ; J. Burtt-Davy ; 
H. Kynaston ; E. A. Lehfelt ; C. P. Lounsbury ; E. Marloth ; 
J. MoiR ; H. H. W. Pearson ; A. W. Eogers. 
Dr. Amaral-Leal ; J. M. Bain ; Dr. T. McLelland Henderson ; 
J. Hewit ; J. C. J. Knobel ; A. J. T. Janse ; M. Leviseur ; J. W. 
Maxfield ; W. Wardlaw Thompson ; W. Coulson Tregarthen ; 
A. E. V. Zealley ; C. J. Swierstra were elected ordinary members 
of the Society. 
Dr. Marloth exhibited some toad-locusts from the Namib, the desert 
strip of Great Namaqualand, exactly resembling, in colour as well as in 
form, the gravel or the rocks among which they occur. 
On Nutmeg Poisoning," by Dr. Marius Wilson. The symptoms 
were described and attention called to the small number of cases recorded. 
As the condiment was used practically throughout the whole world, the 
explanation must be that a few nutmegs had gone into circulation after 
germination had begun and then been arrested. In support of this he 
called attention to the fir seed (dana pitje) which was greatly relished and 
largely eaten by children near Capetown without any bad results ; but 
when one seed, which has started to germinate, was eaten, the results 
were very serious and dangerous. 
" Observations on some Specimens of South African Fossil Eeptiles 
preserved in the British Museum," by Dr. E. Broom. The following are 
some of the conclusions come to by the author : — 
All the later specimens which have been referred to Galesaurus are 
held to belong to a different genus and species and must take Owen's 
name, Nythosaitrus larvatus, 
Gorgonops is held to be closely allied to Titanosuchus and to be really 
a Dinocephalian. 
Theriognathus is believed to be very distinct from Endothiodon and to 
be really a Therocephalian. 
Anthodoii is held to include at present two entirely distinct forms. 
The type is a small Pareiasaurian from the Permian beds of Styl-Krantz. 
