Minutes of Proceedings. 
XXIX 
Mr. Montagu Price was nominated for membership. 
The President gave notice of the election of the Council, President, 
and Officers, and announced the Council's recommendation to the Society as 
Members of Council for 1916 of the following seven members of the existing 
Council : — L. Crawford, J. K. E. Halm, W. A. Jolly, C. F. Juritz, L. 
Pfringtjey, Sir A. Theiler, and A. Marius Wilson ; and the following 
five Fellows : — J. C. Beattie, Gr. S. Corstorphine, C. P. Lounsbury, S. 
ScHONLAND, and B. St. J. v. d. Eiet. 
The Council further recommended L. P^ringxjey as President, L. Craw- 
ford as Hon. Treasurer, and W. A. Jolly as Hon. G-eneral Secretary. 
Exhibits : 
Mr. J. S. V. d. Lingen exhibited to the Society: (1) anew form of 
protective cloak of rubber and lead to be worn when work is being under- 
taken with X rays ; (2) Apparatus in which liquid air is employed for 
cooling crystals ; and (3) Heating Apparatus for the study of liquid 
crystals. 
Dr. L. Peringuey exhibited stone implements found together with 
remains of extinct animals in South Africa, and sketched the probable 
ancestry of Man in South Africa in view of the recent discovery of fossilised 
human remains. 
The following communications were read : 
" Description of a South African Species of Pelodrilus." By E. J. 
G-ODDARD and C. S. G-robbelaar. 
This is the first record of the genus Pelodrilus, an Oligochaete worm, in 
South Africa. The specimens were obtained from Sneeuw Kop, near Wel- 
lington, at a height of about 4,500 feet. The species has the generic characters 
of other species. The genital pores were distinctly made out. The occurrence 
in South Africa is interesting, as the genus has a distribution restricted to 
the Antarctic region. 
" Preliminary Note on Ancient Human Skull-remains from the Trans- 
vaal." By S. H. Haughton. 
A description is given of the skull-remains found at Boskop, Transvaal, 
and of the manner of their occurrence. The remains consist of the greater 
part of the skull-cap, a temporal bone, and a portion of the lower jaw. 
Unfortunately, no estimate can be given as to their age. The bones are 
considerably fossilised, and were found embedded in a sub-soil which 
overlay and partially consisted of the lateritic " ouklip " characteristic of 
some parts of the Transvaal. 
Examination of the skull-cap shows that it is the longest known, with 
the exception of that of La Chapelle-aux- Saints. Its greatest affinities are 
with the skulls of the Cro-Magnon type — a Negroid type which lived in 
Southern Europe after that of Neanderthal. The back of the skull is 
considerably elongate, a feature displayed both by the Neanderthal man and 
