the Nomenclature of the Furniiunifera. 10i> 



.")7. 7'iu-fN/(in'.t r,n«/,if.i, D'Oil.. I'l. XI. li^^ 12(». 



'• rolynidrphiiiu triniujidnrc," Snldtmi, 'IVstac. vol. i. pt. '2. p. IIO, pi. 1;52. 

 fi|tr. ^'. 1 >'Orb. oyj. cit. p. :.'(>.'>, no. ^'O. 



'^//al>. The Adriatic," (Mcditfiranraii or Adriatic, Soldani.) 



Tlii.-! a|)|)car.-< to l>e a niiimtc ahiiormal Te.rttdaria, or sonic 

 other Knallu.steijjian f'onn, ])r<)(hiced at the apex into a cylin- 

 drical .stem, and having on the last cliainber a subcylinclrical 

 tube, or process, pointing upwards antl outwards. 



58. Textuhiriatuberosa,T>\)v\). Pi. XL %. 119. 



"Polvmorpha Jnnifonnia;" Soldaui, Testae, vol. ii. p. 39, pi. 14. fig. A. 

 D'Orb. op. cit. p. L'().'3. no. 20. 



'' Ilab. The Adriatic." (Fossil near KSicnna, Sohlani.) 



A short, inflated, broad-mouthed Textularia, belonging pro- 

 bably to 7'. (jihhosa. 



59. VidvHJ!na2^vpa,W0vh. PI. XI. %. 122. 



" Orthoccratirt Pupa;'' Soldani, Testae, vol. i. pt. 2. p. 99, pi, 108. figs. 

 w, x.r. D'Orb. op. cit. p. 204. no. 2. 



^^ Hob. The Adriatic." (Rimini shore, ^SoWa^j^'.) 



Accepting Gvammostomnm as a Textularian subgenus, com- 

 prising the short, wide, thin-edged varieties, which are usu- 

 ally, though not invariably, limbate at the sutures, this may 

 be regarded as a useful subordinate form, characterized by its 

 well-defined carifiatc margin. See also No. 35, p. 162. 



Soldani's remarks on the Grammostoma figured on his 

 plate 108 are so strikingly illustrative of the slow progress of 

 naturalists in the recognition and discrimination of Foramini- 

 fera, so expressive of his own patient research and of his 

 openness to conviction by the teaching of fellow-workers, 

 and, further, so suggestive of a broad knowledge and wise 

 foresight as to the probable requirements of the complete 

 study of Foraminifera, that we reproduce his own words : — 



" Post diutinam super his Corpusculis observationem placuerat 

 prius ea iu album Testarum Hanimoiiiformium referre : at post 

 acceptam epistolam CI. Modeerii ad Cap. IV. recensitam, ad Ortho- 

 ceratia traustuli. Si cui forte magis lubeat de his novum genus 

 conficerc nee nos obstamus. Hoc tantum monere oportet, has 

 Testas, quas pro coronide hujus capitis [Cap. VI. De Orthoceratiis] 

 heic reponimus, esse raras ; ct in hoc Vase [CCXL,] conteutas n. 26. 

 Summa difficultate ab arenulis littoris Ariminensis excerptas : ac 

 proinde testamur, in ahis littoribus omnibus, turn etiam in fundo 

 maris [Tyrrheni], et in concretionibus zoophyticis per nos hactenus 

 oxpcnsis. eas omnino desidcrari. Ex hoc vol imico exempio edoctus 

 quis non dixerit, ad locupleliorcm acquiroudam Testarum [cogni- 



