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so shallow and so little fed with water as to be sure to become 
dried up with the first continuance of dry weather. 
Mr. Draper showed recent specimens of Trichina from pork. 
Mr. W. H. Baily exhibited a number of slides of fossil 
Foraminifera, collected by Mr. Joseph O'Kelly, of the Geological 
Survey of Ireland, at the Tajares Tile Pits, near Malaga. ‘The 
following species have been determined by Professor 'T. Rupert 
Jones: 
1. Nodosaria Raphanistrum, Linneus. 
2. £ longiscata, D’ Orbigny. 
3. Nodosarina Raphanus, Linn. 
4. Cristellaria arcuata, D’Orb. 
5. 4 Ariminensis, D’Orb. 
6. a calecar, Linn. 
7. 5 cassis, Fichtell & Moll. 
8. 45 cultrata, Montfort. 
3h 3 echinata, D’Orb. 
10. 33 Italica, Defrance. 
iy " ornata, D’Orb. 
12. rotulata, Lamarck, 
” 
13. Hrondicularia complanata, Defy. 
14. Dentalina acicula, Lam. 
15. - communis, D’ Orb. ,comprising sub-varieties 
D. pauperata, D, elegans, D. inornata. 
16. be soluta, Reuss. 
es 17. Biloculina ringens, Lamarck. 
Miliole ee a: Brie ahi 
"18. Quinguiloculina semilunum, Lam. 
: ' >) Known to be one and 
19. Orbulina universa, D’ Orb. ) the same species. Orb. 
Globigerina bulloides, D’ Orb. j Sah ala ee 
ones. 
20. Planorbulina Hardingerii, D’ Orb. 
21. Polymorphina lactea, var. problema, W. & J. 
22. Polystomella crispa, Linn., var. macella, F. & M. 
23. Pulvinulina Schreibersii, D’Orb. 
Professor Rupert Jones remarks that “the Malaga forms of 
Foraminifera are almost the exact counterpart of those from the 
clays of the Vienna Tertiary basin, In the Mediterranean, from 
the shore to a depth of 100 fathoms, we have a similar group of 
Rhizopods, though the Wodosarie and Cristellarie do not approach 
the size of those of Malaga.” (‘Journal of the Geol. Soc. of 
London,’ vol. xv, 1859, p. 600.) 
Mr. Archer showed a fresh Characium, very slender, ensi- 
form, both extremities very acute, which seemed to come nearest 
to Characium tenue (Hermann), in Rabenhorst’s ‘ Beitriige zur 
niheren Kenntniss und Verbreitung der Algen,’ Heft i, 1863, 
in a paper by Dr. Hermann, entitled ‘‘Ueber die bei Neudamm 
aufgefundenen Arten des genus Characium,”’ p. 29, t. vii, fig. 1¢. 
