lo NATURAL SCIENCE. July, 



Frondicularia frondicula, n.sp., also appeared from the pen of this en- 

 thusiastic worker in February, 1895, t)ut has only just reached us. 

 Frederick Chapman continues his monograph on the Gault forms 

 {Jotirn. R, Micros. Soc, 1896) and presents his views on the CnstellaricB 

 and Polymorphinm of this deposit. As regards Polymovphina we 

 hope shortly to be in the possession of a masterly and elaborate 

 account of this genus from the pen of Professor Rupert Jones and 

 Mr. Chapman ; a paper on the subject having been read before a 

 recent meeting of the Linnean Society. The paper is, in part, a 

 continuation of the 1869 paper of Brady, Parker, and Jones, published 

 by the same Society, and deals chiefly with those wild-growing forms 

 familiar to students of the group. The authors have also devoted 

 considerable time and attention to Ramulina, a closely-related form, 

 and the publication of the paper will give, for the first time, a con- 

 nected account of this interesting genus. In the Geological Magazine 

 for September, 1895, Professor Jones, when reviewing some Reports 

 of the Geological Survey of Iowa, took the opportunity of calling 

 attention to the wide range of certain Cretaceous Foraminifera in the 

 two hemispheres. 



The working out of reticulate Rhizopoda in Australia is continued 

 by Walter Howchin, who treats of three new Carboniferous forms, 

 Cornuspira, Nodosaria and Frondicularia. We cannot accept the Covnuspira 

 because of the chambering shown in the figure, but the Frondicularia 

 is interesting as carrying back the genus from Liassic times. These 

 tests come from the shales of the Irwin River, and are described and 

 figured in Trans. R. Soc. S. Austral., 1895. In the same paper 

 Howchin figures a Haplophragmium and a Patellina from the Cretaceous 

 of Hergott Springs, 441 miles north of Adelaide, We do not see how 

 the first specimen can be separated from the common and very 

 variable English species ; the Patellina is of a much greater interest. 

 A list from the Eocene beds of Cape Otway, at p. 114 of the same 

 journal, shows 64 forms. 



A new author on this group, Henrik Munthe, contributes two 

 papers on Foraminifera to the Geol. Foren. Stockholm Forhandlingav 

 (xviii., 1896). Munthe treats of the faunas of the " Yoldia mergel " 

 and the Chalk, and wisely contents himself with listing known forms^ 

 and not making new names. 



As a matter of considerable interest, we may conclude this note 

 by mentioning that Mrs. Williamson has presented to the Zoological 

 Department of the British Museum the almost complete series of 

 figured specimens illustrative of the late Professor W. Crawford 

 Williamson's Monograph of British Recent Foraminifera (Roy. Soc, 

 1858). The series also includes the types of his Lagems (1848) ; 

 Levant (1848) ; and his papers on the structure of the test. The 

 specimens are, in most cases, loosely mounted in cardboard cells, but 

 Mr. Sherborn, who was consulted about the slides, has, we understand 

 carefully ascertained the identity of the types. 



