632 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The following Donation received since the last Meeting was 

 announced, and the best thanks of the Society accorded the donor :— 



From 



Bagshaw (W.), P.R.M.S., "Elementary Photo-micrography," \ The Author. 

 3rd edition, 1915 J 



A paper by Messrs. E. Heron-Allen, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., and Arthur 

 Earland, F.R.M.S., entitled " The Foraminifera of the Shore Sands and 

 Shallow Water Zone of the South Coast of Cornwall," was read. The 

 paper was illustrated by a series of slides shown on the screen and 

 described by Mr. Earland. 



Mr. Earland, in introducing the paper, stated that it was to be 

 regarded as a further instalment of the local records which the authors 

 were amassing as a preliminary to a British Monograph, and this paper 

 practically completed the area of the English Channel. 



The paper was based on the examination of Cornish shore sands and 

 one very rich dredging taken off Newlyn. In order to make the records 

 as complete as possible they had included all published records from the 

 district, and a number of unpublished records which had come into their 

 possession from various sources, all of which are suitably acknowledged 

 in the paper. This included a total number of 255 species and varieties, 

 of which 221 occurred in their own gatherings. 



As might be expected from the local geology, fossil derivatives were 

 very scarce, as compared with gatherings made farther eastward in the 

 Channel, but they had records of two common Cretaceous species, two 

 Eocene, and of a single Pliocene specimen, Faujasina carinata d'Orbigny, 

 which could only have originated in the Pliocene clays of St. Erth, 

 many miles inland from the "locality (Penzance) where it was found. 



Three species were recorded for the first time as British, and a few 

 others as British for the second time. 



At the conclusion of the demonstration, the Chairman remarked that 

 the Fellows had once again to thank Messrs. Heron-Allen and Earland 

 for presenting to the Society the results of the valuable work they were 

 doina: in connexion with the Foraminifera found in various places 

 around our coasts. 



With regard to the discovery on the Cornish coast of Foraminifera 

 derived from the chalk and Eocene beds, he would like to know whether 

 the authors considered it possible that these specimens had drifted along 

 the shore from the coast. He believed that there was some evidence 

 from other sources which seemed to show that there was such a drift 

 from east to west along the south coast, but it would be very interesting 

 to have it confirmed by the distribution of the Foraminifera. As regards 

 the characteristic species from the St. Erth beds found at Penzance, he 

 suggested that wading birds might conceivably be responsible for the 

 transmission. He also wished to ask whether more than the one 

 pelagic form specially referred to had been found, as it seemed extremely 



