On the species Pilolite, and the examination of a specimen from China

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A Sample of supposed ‘vegetable asbestos’ obtained in the west of the province of Süchwan, China, was forwarded in 1907 by Mr. J. H. Bristow, the British Consul at Chungking. It was later reported by Mr. H. Phillips, the British Consul at Chungking, that the so-called ‘vegetable’ asbestos previously mentioned ‘is found in crevices between rocks in the districts of Lei Po T'ing and P'ing Shang Hsien, in the prefecture of Sui-fu.’ The author has recently been informed that it occurs along the length of the Yangtse-kiang generally, from Sui-fu to the Huili-chou neighbourhood—i.e., along the Süchwan-Yunnan border on the outskirts of the Man Tzu country.