(California) WeeUy Press, with many cuttings from American papers on 

 the subject of Angora wool, together with a sample of the wool itself. [The 

 sample, which can be seen at the Museum, is a piire white, with a beautiful 

 silky lustre, and 16^ inches in length.] The following letter was read : — 



'■ Santa Barbara Press, 



" Santa Barbara, Cal., U.S., 



" 14th January, 1877. 

 " To the Hon. Secretary, Royal Society of Tasmania. 



" Dear Sir, — I have read in the Bulletin of our National Association 

 of Wool Manufacturers, interesting extracts from the proceedings of your 

 Society relative to the culture of the Angora Goat in Tasmania, and have 

 re-pubhshed portions of the same, which I will mail t© you in the Press. 



" I write to ask you to favour me with a complete printed copy of your 

 proceedings containing the able paper of Mr. John Swan, M.H.A., on 

 this topic, together with any other facts in your possession relative to the 

 introduction, culture, and breeding of the Angora in your country. It is 

 an object of great interest to me and to California, and I wish the facts for 

 preservation and dissemination. In return for the courtesy I will be glad 

 to mail to your address some publications on this industry in this covxntry, 

 which I hope will be found of interest. I will of course pay, besides, any 

 charges there may be on the papers you may send, when the same shall 

 have been ascertained. 



" I have written Mr. Swan, in your care, to the same effect. 



" I am, etc., etc., 

 " H. G. Otis, 

 " Editor." 



The Secretary read a paper "On some South Australian Polyzoa," 

 by F. AV. Hutton, Esq., F.G.S., Director of the Museum, Dunedin ; and 

 in connection with it the following note from Professor R. Tate, of Adelaide, 

 was also read : — 



" 4 Buxton-street, Adelaide, 



"l7thJ^ovr., 1876. 



" Dear Sir, — Herewith I send you M.S. ' On some South Australian 

 Polyzoa ' by my correspondent Mr. F. Hutton, as a communication to the 

 Royal Society of Tasmania ; also specimens of the new species therein 

 described. 



" I beg to communicate that I have discovered species of Belenmites 

 and Salenia in the Middle Tertiaries (? Miocene) of South Australia ; they 

 were obtauaed by myself in the sea cliffs of Aldinga Bay, about 26 miles 

 south from here, and are associated with the characteristic fossils of the 

 Murray and Mount Gambler beds. The technical descriptions of the new 

 species have been communicated to the Geological Society of London, and 

 the species named Belenmites senescens and Salenia tertiaria. 



" Hitherto the genus Belemnites has been represented in Tertiary strata 

 only by one species, from the Eocene of Germany. 



"The present species of Salenia is the first recorded from Cainozoic 

 strata, and it happily fills the gap which was made by the discovery of 

 the genus in a living state during the voyage of the Challenger. I send 

 you examples of the new species. 



" Truly yours, 



"Ralph Tate. 



" Dr. Agnew, Secretary Royal Society of Tasmania." 



A " Census, with brief description of the Marine Shells of Tasmania 

 and the adjacent Islands," by the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 F.R.G.S., Corresponding Member of the Royal Societies of New South Wales 

 and Tasmania, etc., etc., was laid on the table. 



The Rev. W. W. Spicer after commenting on the great value to all 



