2. “Note on a Dredging off Puysegur Point,”

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2. “Note on a Dredging off Puysegur Point,” by Mr. P. Chapman; communicated by Dr. Chilton. This material consists largely of quartz sand with broken and water-worn shells, Polyzoa, and Echinoid spines. It indicates an area in which there is a continual scour by currents or tidal action, and therefore affords little chance of finding many perfect organisms. It resembles, in fact, a beach sand such as occurs on a rocky coast unrelieved by stretches of mud deposits. The organisms noted are,— Foraminifera— Miliolina seminulum Linné sp. Very rare. — polygona d'Orbigny sp. Very rare. Spiroplecta sagittula Defrance sp. Very rare. Polymorphina elegantissima Parker and Jones. Common. — compressa d'Orbigny. Very rare. Pulvinulina repanda Fichtel and Moll sp. Very rare. — var. concamerata Montagu var. Very rare. Rotalia clathrata Brady. Occasional. All the above species have been previously recorded from the Subantarctio Islands of New Zealand (see my report, Subantarctie Islands of N.Z., 1909, pp. 366–70). Echinoid spines, fairly abundant; indeterminate. Polyzoa— Crisia sp., Idmonea sp., Cellaria sp., Cellepora sp., Selenaria sp. Mollusca— Cuna sp., Philobrya sp., Liotia sp., Cyclostrema sp. The muds from Milford Sound and Charles Sound were both barren of organisms, being purely terrigenous in character. Mr. N. Benporath has kindly assisted me in searching the above material for Foraminifera.