484 Mr. Edward Heron-Allen [May 21, ' 



are nearest to the origin of life. We must not merely collect and 

 classify them like postage stamps. The study of the Foraminifera 

 has been grievously afflicted with a tendency to lie upon a platform 

 between two points, on one of which sits the invalided Scientist who, i 



forbidden by his doctor to work, has bought a pound of the comfit ' 



known to our youthful taste as " Hundreds and thousands," and who ' 

 employs his time sorting out the red, the white, and the blue, setting '! 

 aside as new species those globules which have been damaged in the \ 



process of manufacture— and on the other of which sits the Gram- 

 marian, whose, sole regret upon his deathbed was that he had not [ 

 devoted the whole of his life to the Dative case. ) 



List of Slides shown. | 



i 



1. A Nummulite. (Nummulites gizehensis — Ehrenherg). ' 



2. Ditto. Section. ) 



3. Section of Nummulitic Limestone. 



4. Nummulites cumingii — Carpenter. \ 



5. Alveolina Limestone. Mixon Reef, Selsey. 



6. Alveolina boscii — Defrance.. 



7. Spirillina groomii — Chapman. 



8. Globigerina ooze. N. Atlantic. \ 



9. The same, more highly magnified. 



10. Chalk Foraminifera. (Upper chalk), Herts. \ 



11. Dog's Bay, Connemara. \ 



12. Dog's Bay Foraminifera. i 



13. Emlagh Point. | 



14. Mediterranean Foraminifera. ■; 



15. Hooke's Ptotalian Shell. 1665. ■ 



16. Leeuwenhoek's Polystomella. 1702. 



17. Kerimba Foraminifera. 



18. Pavonina flabelliformis— <:Z'0r6iYy?z?/. (Opaque.) 



19. The same by transmitted light. 



20. Calcareous Foraminifera. 



21. Arenaceous Foraminifera. j 



22. Carterina spiculotesta — Carter. « 



23. The same, basal view. ), 



24. Isomorphism of Cornuspira, Ammodiscus, and Spirillina. 



25. Nubecularia lucifuga — Defrance. . j 



26. Biloculina serrata — Bailey. \ 



27. Spiroloculina nitida — cVOrhigny. \ 



28. Miliolina seminulum — [d'Orbigyiy). * 



29. Miliolina bertheliniana — Brady. | 



30. Massilina secans — {d'Orhigny). ' j 



31. Cornuspira foliacea — {Philippi). 



32. Saccammina sphaerica — M. Sars. } 



33. Haplophragmium crassimargo — Norman. 



34. Haplophragmium pseudospirale — Williamson, 



35. Textularia agglutinans — d'Orhigny. ' 



36. Webbina clavata — Jones and Parker. 



37. Reophax scottii — Chaster. l' 



38. Bulimina aculeata— d'OrMgny. 



39. Bulimina subteres — Brady. '[ 



40. Group of Lagenidae. 



41. Nodosaria filiformis — d'Orbigny. ' 



