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On the 2nd of September we delivered these presents, and also the 

 pea-fowls sent by the Zoological Society. On the following day I 

 was honoured by an interview with the king, who received me in the 

 same cordial manner as before. I read to him your letter, which was 

 interpreted as I read : he is much pleased with the birds, which were 

 turned out and fed in his presence. I explained to him the reason 

 of their being without tails, and showed him a picture of the bird in 

 full plumage. He asked a great many questions respecting the So- 

 ciety, and requested me to read over a number of members' names 

 from the list wdth which you flirnished me. As soon as I mentioned 

 Lord Palmerston's name, the king readily recognised it. 



" In reply to your letter, the king promises to catch you elephants, 

 and he suggested to me that it is always necessary to kill the old one 

 to secure the young. He says that his female soldiers have caught 

 many, but never kept them ahve. If they are bound with ropes 

 they surely die : the king thinks the only way to secure one is to 

 have a large cage made, of great strength, and carried to the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the elephants' track, so that the young elephant 

 mav be placed in it as soon as captured, and at once conveyed to 

 Whydah. 



" I have asked for several other animals, which have also been pro- 

 mised to me. I am, thank God, in excellent health, as well as my 

 companions." 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Description of a new genus and several new species of 



TERRESTRIAL, FLUVIATILE AND MARINE MOLLUSCOUS AnI- 



mals inhabiting New Zealand. By J. E. Gray, Esq., 

 F.R.S., President of the Botanical Society, etc. 



Major Greenwood has most kindly transmitted to me, for the Mu- 

 seum Collection, a number of small species of terrestrial and fluviatile 

 Mollusca which he had collected near Auckland in New Zealand. 



I hasten to lay before the Society a description of those which were 

 not noticed in the Faunula attached to I)r. Dieifenbach's Travels. 



, ' 1. AR(ioNlD.E. 



1. Nanina? Kivi, Gray, Fauna N. Z. 262. u. 220. 

 Hab. Auckland ; Major Greenwood. 



2. Nanina Marine, Gray, Fauna N. Z. 262. n. 221. 

 Hab. Auckland ; Major Greenwood. 



These species were each described from a single specimen ; Major 

 Greenwood has sent one of the former and several of the latter, of 

 different ages, and they prove very distinct and well-marked species. 



.3. Nanina? Celinde. 



Shell rather depressed, pale brown ; spire subconic ; whorls five, 

 rather closely adpressed, with transverse membranaceous ridges, the 

 last slightly keeled, convex in front ; axis with a narrow deep perfo- 



