PREVIOUS WORK IN THE AREA 301 



St. 315, 315 A, 316. Stanley Harbour. 6 fms. Blue mud. 



Brady (1884, FC, p. 106) records "starved varieties oiRotalia, Polystomella, Lagena and Bulimina. 

 The only species of any particular interest were Patellina corrugata and Bulimina elegantissitna ". In 

 the " Summary", p. 1180, there is a list of twenty species, all of which figure in our report. 

 St. 317. Feb. 8, 1876. 48° 37' S, 55° 17' W. 1035 fms. Sandy gravel. 



This is in the deep water outside our area. Brady (1884, FC, p. 106) records that the " Foramini- 

 fera were mostly North Atlantic or sub-Arctic cold-water types, but with very few arenaceous 

 species". 



The German expedition in the ' Gazelle ' had a station 148 in 47° 01' 30" S, 63° 30' W, 

 115 m. Egger in his report on the Foraminifera (E. 1893, FC, p. 22) gives brief details 

 of the occurrence of Cassididina subglobosa, C. parkeriano, Uvigerino pygmaea and 

 Pidvinulina elegans on a bottom of grey-green sand with shells. This is on the Conti- 

 nental Shelf to the north of our area. 



The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1903-4 made two stations in the 

 Falkland area. Pearcey gives brief details in his report on the Foraminifera (Pearcey, 

 1914, SNA, pp. 1031, 1034). 



St. 118. Stanley Harbour. 2 J fms. Brown mud with greenish tint. 



Chief Foraminifera : Bulimina elegantissima, Pulvinulina (Rotalia) karsteni and Polystomella striato- 

 punctata. Proteonina difflugiformis, Trochammina nitida and T. nana represent the arenaceous forms. 



St. 346. 54° 25' S, 57° 32' W. On the Burdwood Bank. 56 fms. 



(This is near WS 82, a station from which we had no material.) Calcareous, shelly and foramini- 

 ferous sand. No fewer than eighty species of twenty-five genera of Foraminifera were obtained. With 

 few exceptions, all of the typical Antarctic, shallow-water character, but arenaceous types are con- 

 spicuous by their absence, being represented by Trochammina nitida only. 



A number of species including three new species are listed. Heronalletna (Discorbis) kempii was 

 found at this station (see No. T,^/^post). 



Since this Report went to press we have received a short paper by Dr J. A. Cush- 

 man and Frances L. Parker entitled " Recent Foraminifera from the Atlantic Coast of 

 South America" {Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. No. 2903, 1931, pp. 1-24, pis. i-iv). It deals 

 with material collected in shallow water (maximum 15 fathoms) in two very different 

 areas, three of the stations being sub-tropical, in Rio de Janeiro Harbour, the other 

 eight stations being sub-Antarctic, six of them lying among the Falkland Islands, and 

 the other two off the Argentine Coast, in the neighbourhood of our stations WS 95, 

 and WS 221. 



The thirty-two species and varieties recorded by the authors from their sub-Antarctic 

 area are mostly cosmopolitan, and very few of the characteristic Falklands species 

 figure in their list. Twenty-six of them are dealt with in our Report under the same 

 names (Nos. 29, 46, 61, 90, 100, 102, 105, no a, 135, 160, 163, 170, 182, 187, 191, 200, 

 252, 326, 340, 358, 390, 395, 417, 418, 420, 422). Three others we regard as synonymous 

 with species recorded by us. 



Quinqueloculina isabellei, d'Orbigny, sub M. seminulum (Linne), (No. 12). 



Lagena iota, Cushman, sub L. annectens, B. and H. (No. 215). 



Bolivina plicatella, Cushman = B. pseudo-plicata, H.-A. and E. (No. 151J. 



