lo DISCOVERY REPORTS 



THEPOURQUOI PAS? EXPEDITION 

 Charcot in his second voyage in the ' Pourquoi Pas? ', 1908-10, visited Graham Land, 

 the Biscoe Islands, Queen Adelaide Island, Alexander Land and the coast named after 

 him Charcot Land. Much collecting was done, but does not appear to have extended to 

 Foraminifera. At any rate the material must have been of the scantiest, as Faure-Fremiet 

 records only these fourteen species in his reports (F. 1913-14, FMAF). 



No. in 



this 

 report 



127 Rhahdammina dtscreta, Brady 



?IS6 Reophax disians, Brady = IHormosina oviciila var. gracilis 



140 Reophax denlaliniformis, Brady 



158 Haplophragmium canariensis (d'Orbigny) 



166 Haplophragmium latidorsatum (Bornemann) = H. subglobostis 



— Miliolina alveoliniformis , Brady 



259 Bulimiiia aciileata, d'Orbigny 



286 Cassiduliiia crassa, d'Orbigny 



?269 Virgulina siibdepressa, Brady = V. schreibersiana probably 



340 Entosolenia globosa, Ehrenberg 



452 Uvigerina pygmaea, d'Orbigny 



454 Uvigerina angulosa, d'Orbigny 



?464 Globigerina bulloides, d'Orbigny = G. pachy derma by the figure 

 Truncatulina ? 



Faure-Fremiet's most interesting record is the arenaceous form which he figured and 

 assigned, with reservations, to Miliolina alveoliniformis , Brady. It is not that species 

 but a Miliammina, the first of its genus to be figured. Some observations on his record 

 will be found on p. 90 of the South Georgia report. I can only add that after examining 

 material from most of the areas visited by the 'Pourquoi Pas?', I have found no 

 specimens resembling Faure-Fremiet's organism in possessing a cribrate aperture. 

 Miliammina cribrosa, H.-A. andE., as it has been renamed, remains a "ghost" species, 

 based only on a figure, the types being missing. 



THE SCOTIA EXPEDITION 

 The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1903-4, in the ' Scotia', under Dr W. S. 

 Bruce, worked down from the Falklands, through the South Orkneys into the Weddell 

 Sea, with many stations down to the shores of Coats Land in about 74° S. A report on 

 the Foraminifera was published by F. G. Pearcey (P. 1914, SNA) who described a rich 

 fauna, especially Arenacea, increasing in size and abundance on the continental slopes. 

 Pearcey lists 267 species of which eleven were new. Unfortunately his report, in 

 common with the reports of the Terra Nova and Gauss Expeditions, deals also with 

 material from stations outside the Antarctic area, and considerable labour is entailed in 

 separating Antarctic from other records. Twelve of the Scotia stations are in the 

 Weddell Sea and off the shores of Coats Land. He reports that the foraminiferal 

 fauna of the Antarctic is richer south of 70° S than north of that line. This may be true 

 of the Weddell Sea, where physical conditions are not identical with those in the 

 Bellingshausen Sea, but it would not apply to the area covered by this report. Foramini- 



