Correspondence regarding the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, including correspondence with the University Observatory, Oxford; the Science Research Council; the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories; the University Observatory of St Andrews; the University of London Observatory; the Department of Astronomy, University of Manchester; the Department of Physics, University of Victoria, Canada; the Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town; the National Research Council of Canada; the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking; and the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. There is also a press notice concerning the assumption of responsibility for the Radcliffe Observatory at Pretoria by the Science Research Council.