126 E. HERON-ALLEN AND A. EARLAND ON SOME FORAMINIFERA 



annexed lists, as indicated by the letters C, R, VR, etc., must 

 be understood to refer to their abundance as inter-contrasted with 

 other foraminifera, and not to their frequency in the whole bulk 

 of the dredging. 



A noticeable feature in the dredgings of the Southern or Inner 

 Area is the relative frequency of specimens of fossil foraminifera. 

 They are principally small types derived from cretaceous strata 

 and such as are commonly found in shore sands and shallow- 

 water dredgings round the southern coasts of England. But a 

 few larger and well-developed fossil specimens of Nodosaria and 

 Cristellaria were noted in Hauls 869 and 871, which are not 

 cretaceous. These are perhaps derived from the Crag, a sub- 

 marine outcrop of which formation is believed to extend across 

 the North Sea * ; but they are not all deeply stained with iron, 

 as is usually the case with the larger foraminifera of the Crag, 

 and may be derived from the Gault. 



Only one fossil was recorded from the Northern Area, viz. 

 Spirolocidina impressa Terquem. This is no doubt derived from 

 some submerged Tertiary deposit. It may be noted that Tertiary 

 foraminifera have been dredged by the " Goldseeker " in the Moray 

 Firth. 



The fossils recorded are : 



Spiroloculina impressa Tei quern, Northern Area, one specimen. 

 Textularia globulosa Ehrenberg, Southern Area, all stations. 

 Nodosaria pauperata d'Orbigny, Southern Area, two stations. 

 Nodosaria plebeia Reuss, Southern Area, one station. 

 Cristellaria costata Fichtel and Moll sp., Southern Area, one 



specimen. 

 Cristellaria rotulata Lamarck sp., Southern Area, one station. 

 Globigerina aequilateralis Brady, Southern Area, one station. 

 Globigerina cretacea d'Orbigny, Southern Area, two stations. 



* The appearance of many shell fragments dredged from a band of the 

 sea bed stretching roughly from the Suffolk ccast to the Continent 

 suggests that they come from the Crag. These, however, are iron-stained 

 and curiously glazed in appearance in seme, but not in all cases, owing 

 to attritiop. 



