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RECENT FORAMINIFERA OF VICTORIA : SOME 

 LITTORAL GATHERINGS. 



By Fredk. Chapman, A.L.S., F.R.M.S. 



{Bead May 17th, 1907.) 



Plates 9 and 10. 



The shells of Foraminifera are found abundantly on the shores 

 both of Port Phillip and the Victorian coast generally; but, 

 notwithstanding this, they appear to have been up to the present 

 so overlooked that the chief recorded list is that given by 

 Professors Parker and Jones as early as 1865.* That list com- 

 prised thirty-two species, and the specimens were obtained from 

 a sample of " coast-sand, Melbourne, Australia," which consisted 

 of "coarse quartz sand, full of shells, zoophytes, sponges, and 

 algae." 



A paper on the " Foraminifera of Victoria," by H. Watts, 

 published in 1883,t besides furnishing some short lists of fossil 

 forms, gives one of recent Foraminifera from tide -pools at 

 Beaumaris, Griffith's Point, Queenscliff, etc., comprising six 

 species, all of which are herein recorded if we read Biloculina 

 " compressa" as B. depressa, and Spiroloculina "canaliculate," 

 as S. nitida. 



A short note on the " Foraminifera of Shoreham, Western 

 Port," was published by myself in 1902, % when seventeen species 

 were enumerated, only one being common to Parker and Jones' 

 list. Since then I have added a few more species for this locality, 

 herein recorded. The Foraminifera of the Port Adelaide area 

 have been very thoroughly worked over by the Bev. W. llowchin, 

 F.G.S.,§ and his list will help to form a basis of comparison with 

 our own fauna. 



Besides collecting material myself from various localities, 



* Phil. Trans., vol. 155, pt. i., p. 438. 

 f Sout7ier?i Science Record, vol. iii., No. 3, p. 77. 

 X Victorian Naturalist, p. 112. 



§ "The Estuarine Foraminifera of the Port Adelaide River." Trans. R. 

 Soc. S. A., vol. xiii., 1890, pp. 161—169. 



