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ture 42° F., and the surface water 51 "6° F. It was again met with 

 by the Naturahsts of the Knight Errant and Triton Expeditions in 

 1880 and 1882, but always in a fragmentary condition in the same 

 areas, at a depth of 516 fathoms in the warm area, and in 580 

 fathoms in the cold area, with a bottom temperature 46-5 and 31° F. 

 respectively. It would thus appear to be more common in the 

 cold area, where it was taken in the greatest abundance, strongly 

 indicating that it favours a low temperature. 



In 1886 Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S.,* again records B. lahyrinthica 

 as having been obtained in considerable abundance in a dredging 

 taken about midway between Belfast Lough and Portpatrick, at a 

 depth of 100 fathoms,! and again in September, 1902, from washings 

 of dredged material from Rathlin Sound, Church Bay, in 17 to 24 

 fathoms, but he makes no mention of the temperature of the water. 

 So far as I am aware, B. lahyrinthica has not since been taken or 

 recorded from any other locality. 



Ten years later (in 1879), after its first discovery, I had the 

 pleasure of examining some of the specimens of B. lahyrinthica 

 obtained by the Porciqnne Expedition, which I considered at that 

 time were merely fragments of an incomplete species, and mentioned 

 the fact to the late Dr. H. B. Brady, who quite agreed with me. At 

 that time he was preparing the Challenger Report ; we also held 

 similar views with regard to other arenaceous forms described and 

 figured in that publication, viz., Bhabdammina discreta, Hyperam- 

 mina friabilis, and others, as was proved by the discovery of a new 

 and perfect species of Hyperarmnina {H. palmiformis), figured 

 and described by me from the Faroe Channel.]: 



In December, 1904, while occupied, under the direction of Sir 

 John Murray, examining a series of marine deposits collected 

 on board the Cape Government Zoological investigation vessel, 

 ss. Pieter Faitre (the late Captain Turbyne), off the N.E. and 

 S.W. coasts of Africa, and in the vicinity of the Agulhas Bank, I 

 observed several fragments of a large arenaceous Foraminifera, which 

 I considered to be closely allied to Professor H. P. Carpenter's 

 genus Botellina. These samples of deposit had been sent to Sir 

 John Murray direct from the Cape of Good Hope, as they were 

 obtained by dredge, or trawl, and placed in canvas or strong cotton- 

 cloth bags, so that the general character of the samples as a whole 



* .T. Wright, Foraminifera from Eathlin Island, Irisli Naturalist, vol. xi., 

 pp. 211-213. 



t Ibid., second dredging cruise of the ss. Protector. Belfast Nat. Field 

 Club, 1886. 



\ F. G. Pearcey, on the Foraminifera of the Faroe Channel, Trans. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc, Glasgow, new series, 1887-8, pp. 163-79, vol. ii., pt. 2, pi. 3. 



