34 Transactions of the Society. 



had occasion to mention the ' Tableau Methodique ' have, as a fact, 

 only been able to mention the names with the page and number 

 of the Ann. Sci. Nat. ; they have not been able to indicate any 

 means of comparison, either with figures or with text to support 

 the determinations, excepting as regards the species which 

 d'Orbigny took from the publication of Soldani, to which he has 

 applied new names." ^ 



Here the matter rested. The " Planches " are referred to by 

 Sherborn in his Bibliography (London, 1888, p. 105), with a note 

 from Albert Gaudry that " they are preserved in my laboratory in 

 the Museum." It was here that, not without some little difficulty, 

 I found them in May 1914. Meanwhile G. Berthelin had made 

 a careful study of them for his own use, and after going through 

 them with the invaluable papers of Parker and Jones above 

 referred to, had made tracings, not from the plates themselves, but 

 of d'Orbigny's original outline sketches for them, and these passed 

 on his death in 1897 to Professor Carlo Fornasini of Bologna.^ 

 This eminent authority upon the Foraminifera, in a paper pub- 

 lished in that year,^ tells us : " I cannot find words in which to 

 express my veneration for the memory of G. Berthelin, who died 

 27th August of this year. He remembered me delicately and 

 affectionately by giving me a precious volume. He left a note 

 saying, 'Among my books will be found a large quarto portfolio, 

 labelled, " d'Orbigny Tableau Methodique " ; it is entirely in 

 manuscript and contains plates of tracings of species not published 

 by d'Orbigny. I desire tha.t it may be sent in my name to M. Carlo 

 Fornasini.' " They could not have reached better hands, for, as 

 stated {ante, p. 27), between the years 1898 and 1908 Fornasini 

 published facsimilies of the whole of these tracings in a long 

 series of invaluable articles (see Appendix I.), giving a complete 

 Index to the entire series in the concluding paper.* 



I have made it my duty to make a minute and categoric 

 examination of these " Planches," in Paris, and compare them 

 with the " Tableau Methodique," and it is my intention to bring 

 about the publication of the whole of them, with the permission 

 of the French authorities, an intention which would have been by 

 now well on its way to complete realization had it not been for 

 the disastrous interruption of the European War. 



' It will be observed that Terquem ignored the labours of Parker and Jones 

 in their "Nomenclature." 



" See analysis on p. 28. Berthelin drew for the most part only those species 

 which had been left untouched by Parker and Jones. There were 246 of these, 

 but he also made {vide supra) tracings of eighty-three which Parker and Jones 

 had also dealt with. 



^ C. Fornasini, " Le Sabbie gialle Bolognesi e le ricerche di J. B. Beccari," 

 Eend. di Sessioni della R. Acad. d. Sci. dell' Istituto di Bologna, Ann. Accad» 

 n.s., ii. (1897-8) p. 9. 



* Mem. Ace, Sci. 1st. Bologna, ser. 6, v., p. 41. 



