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difficult without an examination of the Gauss specimens, owing to differences in 

 classification and nomenclature. But it is very apparent that the foraminiferal fauna of 

 Kaiser Wilhelm's Land has more points of difference than agreement with that of the 

 Falklands sector of the Antarctic, or that of the Ross Sea. There are of course a great 

 many species common to all three areas, the majority being of world-wide distribution 

 in deep water. There are also a limited number of species known only or principally 

 from Terra Nova records, and found again in Discovery material. Among these are 

 Vanhoeffenella goussi (No. 51), Pseudobulimina chapmani (No. 282), Textularia 

 antorctica (No. 232), Ehrenbergina hystrix var. glabra (No. 296) and Lagena sqtiamoso- 

 sidcata (No. 396). The range of these species therefore extends over more than half the 

 south polar circumference, and it might be presumed that they had a circumpolar 

 distribution but for the fact that none of them has been recorded in the Weddell Sea, 

 and that there are at present hardly any records for Foraminifera between the Weddell 

 Sea and Kaiser Wilhelm's Land. 



Of the 268 species and varieties recorded by Wiesner from the Antarctic, I have 

 traced 149 in the Discovery list, not always under the same specific or generic name. 

 This may seem quite a high proportion, but the majority, certainly 100 of them, are 

 species of very wide or world-wide distribution. On the other hand, very few of the 

 sixty or more Antarctic species and varieties described as new can be identified in the 

 Falklands sector of the Antarctic. The exceptions are: 



At least some of these may be found eventually to have a distribution outside the 

 Antarctic in cold areas and deep water. I think the balance of evidence indicates that 

 the foraminiferal fauna of Kaiser Wilhelm's Land is not closely connected with the 

 faunas of the Ross Sea and Falklands sectors of the Antarctic. 



The most recent addition to the literature of Antarctic Foraminifera is a short paper, 

 "Foraminifera from the Ross Sea", by A. S. Warthin, Jnr. {Amer. Mus. Novit., 

 No. 721, May 4, 1934). The material examined was a single sounding of 200 cc. grey 



