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DESCEIPTION OF PLATES. 



Plate 10. 



Fig. 1. Reophax nodulosa Brady, x 120. 

 2, 3, 4. Haplop>hragmium pseudospi?*ale Will, sp., x 40. 

 ,, 5, 6. Haplophragmium crassimargo Norman, x 30. 

 ,, 7, 8. Clavulina obscura Chaster, x 100. 

 9. Spiroplecta b iformis Parker & Jones sp., x 120. 

 10. Lagena cymbida Heron- Allen & Earland, superior view, 



X 250. 

 11. Lagena cymbida Heron- Allen & Earland, inferior view, 



x 250. 

 ,,12. Lagena cymbida Heron-Allen & Earland, edge view, 



x 250. 

 13, 14, 15. Globigerina rubra d'Orbigny, x 120. 



Plate 11. 



Fig. 1. Cornuspira diffusa Heron-Allen & Earland, x 5, illus- 

 trating the protean habit of growth. 



2. Heavy portion of ooze from Hilte Fjord, Norway, 260 

 metres, " Goldseeker" Haul 141, depth 260 metres. 

 Most of the foraminifera have been removed by 

 elutriation, leaving a residuum of faecal pellets of 

 Annelid origin (1 Hyalinoecia sp.) x 45. 



,, 3. Rounded sand-grains from "Huxley" material, x 12. 



,, 4. Normal angular grains typical of shore gatherings and 

 shallow-water deposits, x 12. 



,, 5. Crystalline sand-grains from a dredging in the Hauraki 

 Gulf, New Zealand, x 1 2. Such crystalline grains are 

 very rare except in the neighbourhood of volcanic 

 deposits. 



[It is greatly to be hoped that the writers will find it possible 

 for them to examine in similar detail a certain number of the 

 remaining "Huxley" dredgings, of which some six hundred are 

 available, taken from the North Sea south of the Forth. Their 

 present paper shows that in their practised hands results of con- 

 siderable interest may be expected should this be done. I would 



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