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New Series, No. LXXV. Price 6s. 



JULY, 1879. 



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In no section of the subject has so little that is new been 

 elicited from the "Challenger" results as in the Family 

 MiLioLiDA of Carpenter, Parker, andJones. Abundance of 

 large Biloculince and the like are of course to be found in the 

 Globigerina-ooze of deep-sea bottoms, and there is consider- 

 able variety in the forms furnished by some of the shallower 

 dredgings from the tropics, but there is no such range of 

 well-marked modifications of the common types as one would 

 be pretty sure to meet with, for example, in material from 

 depths of five to fifty fathoms in the Red Sea; and as few 

 or no^ shore-sands were collected during the expedition, 

 there is a comparative absence of even the common littoral 

 species. The Miliolida are to be regarded as essentially a 

 shallow-water and littoral group. It is true that the very 

 largest examples of certain genera are found amongst the 

 Glob/(/erma-umd of 1000 to 2000 fathoms, or even at greater 

 depths, but the species so occurring are very limited in num- 

 ber, and the specimens as a rule comparatively few, whilst in 

 shallow water and in shore-sands even the deep-sea species, 

 with one or two exceptions, are common, though the in- 



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