Minutes of Proceedings. xxiii 
Ordinary Meeting. 
An Ordinary Meeting was held on Wednesday, June 19th, 1918, at 
8.15 p.m., in the Board Eoom of the South African Association, Church 
Square, Capetown. 
The President, Dr. J. D. F. Gtilchrist, was in the Chair. 
Business : 
The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed. 
Mr. G. J. Harkins and Dr. L. J. Krige were elected members of the 
Society. 
Prof. W. B. M. Martin, M.D., Prof. T. J. Mackie, M.D., and Dr. E. S. 
CoGAN were nominated for membership. 
Exhibitions : 
Mr. S. H. Haughton exhibited two skulls of a new form of Carnivorous 
Therapsid (Eeptilia) from the Lower Beaufort Beds. The relationships with 
the known families, and the differences from them, were discussed, and the 
form — for which the name Whaitsia platyco2)s was proposed — was shown to 
belong to a new family, which may be called the Whaitsidae. 
Dr. L. Peringtjey exhibited some Bushman paintings on stones, found 
in the cave shelters of Plettenberg Bay, and mostly executed in black, black 
and white, and red ochre. Hitherto only parietal, i. e. paintings on walls or 
roofs of shelters, have been recorded. In the present instances, however, 
the paintings are on flat detached fragments of quartzite, some thin, others 
thicker ; occasionally there is a convex one, and in some cases the continua- 
tion of the painting is to be observed on the cleft or side part ; the blocks 
sometimes bear paintings on both faces. The subjects are animals, rendered 
with the well-known accuracy of the San ; and human, somewhat coventional 
figures, running, dancing, struggling, etc. The technique is that obtaining in 
the Lange Kloof (George), but one of these paintings represents men with 
tattoo-marks, bearded, and with either tousled hair or head-dresses, reminding 
one of the attitude and appearance of the Lybians decorating the tomb of 
the Egyptian King Seti the First and other Egyptian delineations. 
We now know that some such paintings were used by the Strand Loopers 
as a kind of votive offering and placed over the tucked-up body in rock- 
shelters of the littoral, filled almost to the roof with broken and partly 
pulverised shells, debris de cuisine, etc. Some of these shelters are partially 
filled with stalactite columns formed after the filling of the cave, because the 
stalagmite rests on the debris, and it is under the edge of such a column that 
one of the paintings was found. This fact postulates a certain antiquity, 
the more so that the soil from which the stalactite formation is derived is very 
poor in lime. 
Judging from the relics of their industry as revealed in these sepultures, the 
Strand Loopers were in the age of stone and bone combined, and their 
