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lines of life, the study of nature did not constitute the best possi- 

 ble training; but for success in the scientific careers he had spe- 

 cified, it would be wasting words to say how necessary a biologi- 

 cal training is. After referring to Baron Liebig's new book, 

 "The Natural History of Husbandry," and expressing the assured 

 conviction that the popular dogmas of Phrenology would be shown 

 to be radically folse by the advancement of physiological knowl- 

 edge, he then went on to show that profusion not parsimony was 

 the law of nature, and concluded by saying that many causes could 

 be working together to one result. Referring to the possibility of 

 persons considering "the struggle for existence" to be a principle 

 antagonistic to that of " special providence," he said that the in- 

 compatibility of the two agencies had no truer foundation than could 

 be laid in the arbitrary teaching and unsupported hypothesis of 

 ages skilled in the piecing together of word mosaics, but wholly 

 devoid of scientific method. We have wider knowledge, we ought 

 to have truer philosophy, than our forefathers ; it would be an 

 anachronism indeed to suffer the figments of the schoolmen to 

 prejudice us against the work of the modern physiologist. 



On some Fossil and recent Foraminifera collected in 

 Jamaica, by the late Mr. Lucas Barrett, F.G.S. 



By Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S., and W. K. Pahkeb, Esq. 



In 1862 Mr. L. Barrett, F.G.S., late Director of the Geological 

 Survey of the West Indies, gave Messrs. Jones and Parker some 

 fossil and recent foraminifera from Jamaica^ comprising a few 

 new forms ; some that were previously but little known, and some 

 in finer condition of growth than usual. The recent specimens, 

 from their ascertained habitats, illustrate, to some extent, the con- 

 ditions under which the fossil forms were deposited. 



One sample of these fossil Jamaican foraminifera consisted of 

 several specimens of Amphisteglna vulgaris ; and another of a 

 few of the same species, with one Textularia Barrettii (a new 

 variety of Textularia). No locality nor geological horizon was 

 indicated for these. A third sample, from " South Hall Cliff," 

 consisted of two large specimens of Vaginulina legumen. 

 Fourthly, a much larger series of Foraminifera, from the " Pte- 

 ropod-marl" of Jamaica, affords Nodosaria Baphani strum, Den- 

 talina acicula, Vaginulina striata, Frondicularia complanata, 

 Cristellaria Calcar, C. cultraia, C. rotulata.j G. Italica, Orhito- 



