Nomenclature of the Foraminifera. 1(13 



In 1811, Parkinson* figured and described a fossil Alveolina 

 under the generic name of Fasciolites f. 



In 1812, Lamarck J, taking no account of Montfort's genera, 

 and without referring to others, gave the genus the name of 

 Melonites, using Fichtel and Moll's figures as the base of his 

 observations. In J 816 (Encycl. Meth. descript. plates) Melonites 

 was again used by Lamarck, and both Melonia and Melonites 

 appear in 1822 (Hist. Nat. Anim. s. Vert, vii.), Lamarck's two 

 species standing as M. sphcerica and M. sphceroidea. Melonia 

 (Melonie), provisionally established for such recent members of 

 the group as might turn up (according to Lamarck's nomen- 

 clatorial plan), was sometimes confounded with Montfort's Me- 

 lonis (also "Melonie"), especially as De Blainville, besides 

 adopting Lamarck's "Melonia" (Diet. Sc. Nat. 1824, vol. xxxii. 

 p. 176), misprinted "Melonia" for "Melonis" (Diet. Sc. Nat. 

 1824, vol. xxx. p. 17). Cuvier also (reuniting Montfort's three 

 genera) and others followed Lamarck. Deshayes used "Melo- 

 nia" in the 'Diet. Class. Hist. Nat.' 1826, vol. x. p. 350, and in 

 the continuation of the 'Hist. Nat. Vers' (Encycl. Method, vol. iii.), 

 1830. 



In 1826, D'Orbigny §, endeavouring to reduce the then ex- 

 isting chaos to order, went back to the oldest definite name, 

 namely "Alveolites/' and, modifying its termination, both to 

 distinguish it from that of Lamarck's Coral, and to match it 

 with the majority of the names of Foraminifera, especially such 

 as have recent representatives (according to Lamarck's plan), he 

 adopted it under the form of Alveolina, and arranged under it 

 seven specific forms (six fossil and one recent), with their 

 synonymy. 



In 1828, Deshayes ||, in a paper on the Alveolina, describing 

 five species, and in the 'Encycl. Method.' vol. ii. (1830), pub- 

 lished in full for the most part what D'Orbigny had given in 

 abstract, adopting D'Orbigny's term Alveolina. 



In 1846, D'Orbigny^f states that he had then seen nine species 

 of Alveolina, two of which were living (New Holland and Cuba), 

 and seven were fossil. Of the latter the majority were from the 

 Tertiary beds of Paris, Bordeaux, the Pyrenees, and Austria, one 



* Organic Remains of a Former World, vol. iii. p. 158, pi. 10. figs. 28-31; 

 also in his ' Outlines of Oryctology,' 1822. 



f The same as Alveolina oblong a, B'Orb., and Melonia Fortisii, Desh. 



X Extrait de son Cours de Zoologie, &c, par M. Delamarck. We have 

 inadvertently omitted to notice this work in our Monograph on the La- 

 marckian Species of Foraminifera in the Annals Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. vol. v. 

 and vol. vi. 



§ Annales des Sc. Nat. 1826, vii. p. 306. 



|| Annales des Sc. Nat. 1828, xiv. p. 230. 



*jf Foram. Fossiles du Bassin Tertiaire de Vienne, p. 143, &c. 



11* 



