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[FOURTH SERIES.] 

 No. 45. SEPTEMBER 1871. 



XVIII. — On the Xomoiclafure of the Foraminifera. By W. 

 K. Pakkkh, F.R.S., T. Rupekt Jones, F.G.8., and II. B. 

 Bkady, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



[Continued from vol. iv. p. 392.] 



Part XIV. — The Sjjecies enumerated hy D^ Orhigny in the 

 ^Annales des Sciences XatureUes^^ 1826, vol. vii.* 



IV. The Species founded upon the Figures in Soldani^s 

 * Testaceographia ac Zoophytographi(»^ 



[Plates Vin.-XII.] 



With all its fjiults, and they are neither few nor small, the 

 ' Tableau Methodique ' by Alcide Dessalines D'Orbigny t 

 must be regarded as the aljihabet of the nomenclature of the 

 Foraminifera. It is tnie that a considerable number of the 

 specific names therein enumerated, and accepted by naturalists, 

 are derived from treatises of earlier date (a few from Linn^, 

 Batsch, Walker, and ^Montagu ; a lai-ger series from Fichtel 

 and Moll, Lamarck, and Defrance) : but these specific terms 

 were mostly picked out, one here, another there, from figured 

 associates Avith which they have no real relationship. From 

 this statement we might except Fichtel and Moll's beautifully 

 illustrated memoir, all the figures in which, save the first, 

 refer to the Foraminifera J, and Batseh's ' Sechs Kupfertafeln,' 

 which are exclusively devoted to the same family §; but it is 

 to be remembered that the former is only an instalment of an 



* Continued from Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. .3. vol. xvi. p. 41. 



t See Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. xii. p. 429. 



X See Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. v. pp. 98-110, and pp. 174-183. 



§ Jhiih vol. XV. pp. 225-232. 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4.jro/. viii. 11 



