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Mr. C. C. Laciiila pointed out tliat all the people shown ou the 

 screen were exclusively men, and asked if the women were 

 secluded, he also enquired as to the prevalence of polyandry, 

 especially in the higher classes. He appreciated the buttered tea 

 of the Tibetans as a restorative. 



The Lecturt'r replied to the questions put: he could say nothing 

 ;ibout the yaks in the matter of their breeding; that women were 

 not secluded, and that it \\as only by chance that the selected 

 slides showed none. 



February :ird, 1921. 



Dr. A. Smith Woouward, F.K.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 20th January, 

 1921, were read and confirmed. 



The report of the Donations received since the last Meeting 

 was laid before the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society to the 

 several Donors were ordered. 



Mr. Henry Baker Lacey and Mr. John "Wilham Bodger were 

 admitted Fellows. 



Certificates in favour of the fdhnving candidates were read for 

 the second time: — Prof. Eajkumar Sen, M.Sc, and Prof. Sadao 

 Toshida, D.Sc. 



The President announced vacancies in the list of Foreign 

 Members, through the deaths of Dr. Franz Steindachner, Prof. 

 Wilhehn Pfefifer, Prof. Yves Delage, Dr. Odoardo Beccari, 

 Prot. Alfred Gabriel Nathorst ; and a vacancy in the list of 

 Associates, through the death of John Eeader Jackson. 



Dr. Annie Porter, F.L.S., and Prof. II. B. Faxtham exhibited 

 a specimen of a new flagellate found in the blood of a bony fish, 

 Denttx ar(/i/rozoiia, occurring in Cape waters. The flagellate has 

 been namud Herpi-tumonas denticis. It is unusual to find such 

 flagellates in the blood of Vertebrates, but similar flagellates occur 

 in the alimputary tract of In.'-ects and a few othi-r Invertebrata. 

 'J'he significance of the occuri'ence of Herpetomonns in Vertebrates 

 is interesting, as a i-esting form of such a flagellate may occur in 

 man in India, Mediterranean countries, and South America, giving 

 rise to serious diseases such as Kalii-azar and other Leishmaniases. 

 The occurrence of such flagellates suggests the possible evolution 

 of Leishmaniases froui parasites in the gut of blood-sucking insects 

 or other Invertebrates becoming able to live in tiie blood of 



