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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
KOYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 
March 20, 1912. 
The President, S. S. Hough, F.E.S., was in the Chair. 
Nominations for Membership : Dr. De Wet, Pretoria, by T. H. le Roux 
and L. Peringuey ; A. C. L. Lloyd, Cape Town, by J. C. Beattie and 
L. Peringuey. 
Election : D. Sutherns, Dm-ban. 
The President announced the nominations for the new Council, to be 
elected at the Anniversary Meeting on April 17, 1912 : President, L. 
Peringuey ; Honorary General Secretary, J. C. Beattie ; Honorary 
Treasurer, L. Crawford ; Members, H. Bohle, J. K. E. Halm, R. T. A. 
Innes, C. F. Juritz, R. A. Lehfeld, E. Marloth, E. T. Mellor, 
H. H. W. Pearson, A. Theiler. 
Communications : — 
" Bushman Sticks decorated on Intaglio and Poker-work, a Note on 
the Decorative Skill of the Bush People and other Aborigines," by 
L. Peringuey. 
Specimens of sticks, decorated with drawings, and carvings, also busts 
and models, etc., were exhibited. On the sticks the intaglios were extremely 
fine, and represented hunting scenes, in which men in police uniform and 
on horseback were depicted with most consummate skill; other sticks 
were ornamented with poker-work and line drawings of very great artistic 
merit, but representing modern subjects, a railway train among them. 
Poker-work was, in his opinion, probably of Kaffir origin, and it was quite 
