1896. NOTES AND COMMENTS. 8i 



1866 and published by the Palaeontographical Society. This portion 

 is practically a new work, as the long interval of time that has 

 elapsed since part i. was issued has allowed the accumulation of 

 much material, which has to be taken in zoological order. The 

 paper opens with a valuable analysis of the stratigraphy of the Crags, 

 written by H. W. Burrows, and dealing with all the beds from the 

 Bridlington to the Lenham deposits. Those of the Coralline Crag 

 are arranged according to Prestwich's zones, and for the first time 

 are shown the characters of these divisions from their included 

 Foraminifera. The descriptive portion of the paper opens with a 

 short but lucid general account of the Miliolinae (more elaborately 

 discussed in Professor Jones's paper in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ; 

 December, 1894), ^^'^ is concluded by the descriptions of the species. 

 In this connection we may mention the synonymies appended to each 

 species, the result of considerable research, and limited mainly to 

 those references not included by Brady in his great monograph in the 

 " Challenger " Reports. A distinctly new and most useful feature is 

 the section-plan of the various SpiroloculincB and CornuspivcB, a series of 

 diagrams which greatly assist the worker in the comprehension of the 

 different types. Three plates accompany the paper, which is a most 

 important contribution to the literature of the Crag. 



Among other recent publications devoted to this group of animals 

 mention must be made of R. M. Bagg's " Cretaceous Foraminifera of 

 New Jersey" {Johns Hopkins Univ. Circular; October, 1895), where 

 ninety-four species are listed and carefully compared with their 

 European representatives. Dr. Bagg has, we understand, sought the 

 knowledge of some of his English colleagues, and has thus been 

 enabled to publish a valuable and accurate list of forms, and one not 

 burdened with the customary useless quantity of " new species," an 

 advantage to science sufficiently rare to be worthy of high recognition. 

 It is only to be wished that he had chosen a permanent medium of 

 pubHcation. Fornasini, still busy with his subject, has produced a 

 report on " Foraminiferi della Marna del Vaticano illustrati da O. G. 

 Costa " [Palcsont. Italica, i.), in which many of Costa's forms are now 

 correctly described for the first time. He has also published another 

 of his privately-printed notes on Lagena clavata, d'Orb. var. nov. exilis. 

 We should hke to see these notes printed in the publications of some 

 society, as they are inaccessible to the majority of students. Gustave 

 Dollfus has given, in the Annnaire Geologique (1895), ^ careful digest 

 of the literature of 1893, a year in which work on the group was 

 particularly abundant. Frederick Chapman's paper on " Rhaetic 

 Foraminifera " from Wedmore, in Somerset, has appeared in the 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History for October, 1895. This paper 

 has been worked out with the author's customary care. It is the 

 first exact account of Foraminifera from this horizon, and will be 

 hailed with satisfaction by every student of the group. The most 

 interesting part of the paper deals with Brady's genus StacJieia, which 



