364 Profs. King and Rownej on 



the subject involved can be discussed, we have to remark 

 on the second that it betrays such an amount of inapprecia- 

 tivene^ of the facts represented in the figures previously 

 referred to, that we have no fear as to the conclusion of any 

 impartial reader who makes himself acquainted with all the 

 evidences adduced for and against our theory. 



4. '■^ Archmosphcerince'''' and other "minute foraminiferal forms." 



After the reader has compared the " spheroidal bodies or 

 granules (chamber-casts of '£'o2;oon') of translucent serpentine 

 imbedded in saccharoidal calcite (' skeleton ') " from the ophite 

 of Lisoughter, Conneraara, represented in figures 13, 14, and 15, 

 pi. XV. vol. xxii., ' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,' 

 of our first paper, read January 10, 1866, with the '^Arckceo- 

 sphcerinoi " from St. Pierre, Burgess, and Went worth, repre- 

 sented in pages 137 and 138, also the similarly named bodies 

 " from Pargas in Finland (after Gilmbel)," in page 148 of The 

 Dawn of Life,' Ave may be allowed to ask, What is the differ- 

 ence between the one and the other ? Moreover, whether or 

 not we were the first to discover or describe them (for Giimbel's 

 account of them appeared in the same year that ours was pub- 

 lished), it does seem unfair that our names have been totally 

 ignored in connexion with these " ancient spherical animals." 

 It is to be hoped that we shall be more fortunate with the 

 Orbulinas, Globigerinas, &c. recently made known as occurring 

 in the Lizard serpentine *. The ^^ ArchceospJicerince " must pale 

 before the latter ; but, most unfortunate, the Lizard things 

 must also go into the limbo of mineral mimicries ! As to the 

 " minute foraminiferal forms," " worm-burrows," &c., nothing 

 more need be said of them in presence of the oviform and 

 annelid-like bodies characterizing the Cornish rock just re- 

 ferred to. 



5. ^'' New figures of the proper walV f. 



"With respect to the proper wall and its minute tubulation, 

 the essential error of the authors " (ourselv^es) " consists in con- 

 founding it with fibrous and acicular crystals. With regard 

 to this position, I may repeat what I have stated in former 

 papers — that the true cell-wall presents minute cylindrical 

 processes traversing carbonate of lime, and usually nearly 



* 'Philosophical Magazine,' 1876, i. pi. 2. figs. 19 & 20. 



t For obvious reasons we cannot notice figures 11 and 24, copied from 

 another author, especially as they have already been criticised in one of 

 our papers. We cannot but remark, however, respecting figure 11, 

 although held up by Carpenter as representing a portion of the " cell- 

 wall " containing " empty tubuli," that this important feature is altogether 

 ignored in * The Dawn of Life,' — shall we say significantly ? 



