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of the Herpetomonas group. The same is considered to hold good for 
the similar parasites found in fleas and lice. 
Annual Meeting. 
October 21, 1914. 
The President, Dr. L. Peringuey, was in the Chair. 
Professor E. B. Young was elected a Fellow. 
Ordinary Meeting. 
October 21, 1914. 
The President, Dr. L. Peringuey, was in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on September 16th were 
confirmed. 
Mr. Th. Wassenaar was nominated for membership. 
The President gave notice of the election of the Council, President 
and Officers, and announced the recommendation to the Society as 
Members of Council for 1915 the following seven Members of the existing 
Council: L. Crawford, E. J. Goddard, W. A. Jolly, F. E. Kanthack, 
L. Peringuey, W. F. Purcell and J. E. Sutton; and the following five 
Fellows : — J. K. E. Halm, C. F. Juritz, E. A. Lehfeldt, Sir A. Theiler, 
and A. Marius Wilson. 
The Council further recommended L. Peringuey as President, L. 
Crawford as Hon. Treasurer, W. A. Jolly as Hon. General Secretary. 
Exhibits : — 
Specimens of blue Asbestiform Crocidolite were exhibited by Professor 
A. Young. 
These specimens show a peculiar conical structure hitherto unrecorded. 
They come from the Prieska district. The asbestos fibres as usual lie 
parallel to each other and at right angles to the stratification planes of the 
magnetic quartzites in which the asbestos layer is enclosed. Here and 
there the asbestos layer swells out into a cone of about 2 inches basal 
diameter and about 1|- high. 
In the cone the fibres are all parallel to the axis of the cone, while the 
magnetite layer forming the upper surface is completely fractured into a 
series of steps ascending to the apex. These step-like segments, if dropped 
down to the base of the cone, would obviously fit together and merely 
occupy the area of the base. 
