xxvi Transactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
Turner Thiselton Dyer for election as an Honorary Fellow of the 
Society. 
Nominations : Miss A. L. Stephens, Miss A. W. Tucker, Mr. H. J. 
Hembury, Mr. D. B. Malan. 
Communications : — 
" The Blizzard of June 9-12, 1902," by Mr. A. G. Howard. 
In continuation of the paper by Mr. Stewart, B.Sc, read in November, 
1904, before the South African Association for the Advancement of 
Science, the writer of the present paper brings to notice a series of 
synoptic charts of the weather conditions from the 8th to the 13th of June, 
1902, inclusive. These are commented on, the conclusion arrived at being 
that the condition shown and explained is the only one bringing a blizzard 
over the East, although other conditions may bring snow. 
A List of South African Lacertilia, Ophidia, and Batrachia in the 
McGregor Museum, Kimberley, with Field Notes on Various Species," by 
Mr. J. Hewitt and Mr. J. H. Power. 
The paper is offered primarily as a contribution to our knowledge of 
the fauna of the Kimberley district. The present-day fauna of that neigh- 
bourhood is shown to be composite, a new element having been intro- 
duced alono- with timber from Bechuanaland. The faunistic lists are 
accompanied with field notes, and in the case of some of the Batrachia 
the authors have been able to give a short account of the larval meta- 
morphosis. 
The collections of the Kimberley Museum also comprise a particularly 
fine series of reptiles collected in Gordonia by Miss M. Wilman, the 
Curator, as well as much material from various parts of Bechuanaland 
and Ehodesia : the records thus obtained relate for the most part to dis- 
tricts which have hitherto not been systematically explored, and as such 
afford reliable and important data for distribution studies. 
" On the Salivary and Mouth Glands of the Nudibranchiata," by 
Dr. Dreyer. 
" The Leaf-spots of Richarclia alho-maculata, Hook," by W. T. Saxton. 
The author describes the structure and development of the white streaks 
characteristic of the leaves of two species of Bichardia, and discusses their 
origin. 
The white spots are a conspicuous feature of the mature leaf, but are 
absent in the very young leaf. They differ from the white regions of the 
ordinary type of variegated leaf in the fact that the palisade parenchyma 
is quite absent. The increase in size of the spots is evidently due to 
divisions of mesophyll and epidermal cells in those regions, in the 
plane of the leaf, and apparently they originate by the increased meris- 
tematic activity of a small group of such cells, while the palisade remains 
relatively passive, and splits apart at these places. 
