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of the Canary Islands. 13 
the three last also in the tertiary formation of Austria near 
Nussdorf and Buitur. This number of identical species in- 
creases the approximation of the Canary Foraminifera to those 
of the Mediterranean ; for the greater part of the species still 
living in this sea also occur in a fossil state in the tertiary 
series of Italy and Austria. There still remains the sixth 
species, Quingueloculina laevigata, which is found in the ter- 
tiary basin of Paris. 
There are likewise thirty-three species which are peculiar 
to the Canary Islands. Taken together, these, though spe- 
cifically distinct, possess the habit of those belonging to the 
Mediterranean. 
We subjoin M. d’Orbigny’s definition of the group :— 
“The Foraminifera are very small, microscopic, non-aggre- 
gated animals, which invariably possess a separate individual 
existence. They have a coloured jelly-like body, which is 
either entire and rounded, or separated into sections, which 
lic in simple or alternating lines, are spirally rolled up, or 
wound round an axis. This body is contained in a chalky, 
rarely cartilaginous covering, which is formed according to the 
segments of the body, and completely corresponds to the shape 
of the latter. From one or more openings or pores of the 
last segment of the covering, there project contractile, colour- 
less, very long, thin, subdivided and branched threads, which 
serve as organs of motion.”’* 
ee Die lye agi tbe aa aes aD ee BES ES = 
Observations on Jerusalem. 1. General Topography. 
Il. Climate. 
1. General Topography. 
Jervusatem, now called by the Arabs e/-Kuds, “ the Holy,” 
and also by Arabian writers Beit el-Miukdis, or Beit el-Muk- 
addas, “the Sanctuary,”{ lies near the summit of a broad 
Se ee 
* Dr Troschel in Wiegmann’s Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, 1840. 
+ From Dr Robinson’s excellent Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount 
Sinai, and Arabia-Petrwa; in three volumes octayo, with original maps. 
Published by Murray, London, 1841. 
t Abulfed. Syr. ed. Kéhler, p. 9. Edrisi ed. J aubert, i. p. 341. Frey- 
tag Lex. Arab. iii. p. 408. Edrisi also once gives it the name Aurashalim, 
which is said to be sometimes used by the native Christians, 1. ¢. p- 345. 
