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XIV, On the Recent and Fossil Foraminifera of the Shore-sands 



Selsey Bill, Sussex. — VIII. Tabular List of Species 



ami Localities. 



By Edward Heron- Allen, F.L.S., F.R.M.S, 

 and Arthur Earland, F.B.M.S. 



(Read February 15, 1911.) 



THE examination of the material gathered from the Selsey shore- 

 sands having occupied the whole of our available leisure for three 

 years, it is not extraordinary that many species have come to light 

 after we had dealt with their genera in the accepted zoological 

 sequence. The following list is therefore appended to our series 

 of papers by way of index to the series. The figures in the second 

 column refer to the numbers under which each species will be 

 found described in the pages of the Journal. 



The letter e signifies that the species was recorded by Earland 

 in 1905 from the shore-sands of the neighbouring locality, Bognor.* 

 It will be observed that the species found on the east shore of 

 Selsey Bill are remarkably few. Several gatherings have been 

 made " above the Park Beds," but on examination they have 

 proved to contain little beyond molluscan fragments. Why this 

 should be the case we cannot attempt to explain at present. The 

 most exhaustive examinations have been made of the material 

 " Opposite Bungalows," where a monthly gathering has been made 

 for more than a year ; at " S.E. Medmerry Farm," where a remark- 

 able gathering was made in April, 1909, richer in rare forms 

 than any other gathering made on this coast; and "Above the 

 Housepond Beds " ; whilst the Chalk Foraminifera have received 

 especial attention. The " Blue Band," which was exposed for 

 two days in June, 1908, has never been seen again. Fortunately, 

 an ample supply of material was secured on this occasion ; and it 

 will be observed that though the Foraminifera were abundant, 

 they are all referable to less than fifty species. They are, however, 

 without exception, extraordinarily beautiful, being casts in pure 

 pyrites of a rich golden-bronze. 



The Pleistocene Mud deposit opposite Medmerry Farm, the 

 contents of the Giant Pholas shells found among the Pleisto- 

 cene Flints between West Street and Medmerry, and the long 

 series of samples from the 100-ft. Artesian Well Boring at " Large 

 Acres," present geological features and problems which must be 

 left for discussion at a future date. We have preferred, for the 

 present, to leave these three deposits out of the scope of the series 

 of papers of which this is the terminal instalment. 



* Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, 1905, p. 187. 



