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of Amphihelia ramea, and everywhere the several 

 varieties of Caryophyllia borealis. 



The foraminifera, as before, were remarkable for 

 their size, and the same types were predominant; 

 but species were here obtained for the first time of a 



FIG. 10. n,-lit,,ritcx teniiissimii.*, CARPENTER MSS. Magnified. (No. 2s.) 



peculiarly interesting Orbitolite, a type not hitherto 

 discovered farther north than the Mediterranean, 

 and there attaining a comparatively small size. 

 Orbitolites temdssimus, CARPENTER MSS. (Fig. 10), 

 is when complete about the size of a sixpence, and as 



