VI 
Transo,ctions of the Royal Society of South Africa,. 
Ordinary Meeting. 
An Ordinary Meeting was held on March 21st, after the Anniversary 
Meetino'. 
The President was in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on October 18th, 1916, were 
confirmed. 
Dr. E. T. Stegmann, B.A., D.Sc, and Mr. S. H. Scaife were nominated 
for election as members. 
Communications : 
" Note on Palmstr^m's G-eneralisatioii of Lame's Equation," by Sir 
Thomas Mtjir. 
" Mesfoma antarcticum, from Bloemfoiitein (sp. nov.)," by T. F. Dreyer. 
This paper contains a description of a very slender worm, tapering 
towards lioth ends, and, when fully extended, about 7 mm. in length and 
about 1 mm. broad, found in a small pond on clay soil near Bloemfoiitein. 
The specimen shows an almost negligible amount of variation from M. 
mntahile from Tierra del Fuego ; whether this similarity is due to parallel 
evolution or to a former land connection or to dispersal by birds must 
remain an open question. 
" Colour and Chemical Constitution : A Study of the Phthaleins and 
Related Compounds," by James Moir. 
Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 
An Ordinary Meeting was held on Wednesday, April 18th, 1917, at 
8.15 p.m., in the Board Eoom of the South African Association, Church 
Square, Capetown. 
The President, Dr. L. P^ringuey, was in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed. 
Prof. E. B. Young was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
Dr. E. T. Stegmann and Mr. S. H. Scaife were elected members. 
Exhibits. 
The President exhibited polychrome and monochrome paintings, executed 
on river- water and other flat stones found in exploring caverns occupied by 
Strand Looper Sans along the littoral of the Cape. These paintings are of 
a type superior in some cases to the well-known parietal paintings of the 
Bushmen of the interior. They were found lying, and in some cases with 
the painting downwards, on or slightly above the flexed skeleton. That the 
paintings were executed for inhumation purposes, and were not detached 
