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anthropologist until they agree with the grand and vague system of 

 primaeval nature which, with its literal simplicity, general truth- 

 fulness, and sublime import, prefaces the old records of Hebrew 

 and Canaanite, their wars and their wanderings in narrow limits 

 between the Euphrates and the Nile. 



Since Mr. J. S. Moore's book entitled ' Preglacial Man ' was pub- 

 lished, he will have discovered probably that geologists know of no 

 ' Preglacial Man ' as yet : if he has learnt this, ho will know of 

 several other weaknesses in his book ; if he has not, it matters little, 

 for the book can influence no scientific person, and its other readers 

 may live and learn. 



We notice this book as one of those very numerous attempts to 

 widen the spread of scientific knowledge, though the information 

 offered is not w 7 hat it ought to be, and though its hypotheses are the 

 vain offspring of hypotheses as yet unproved, — altogether the result 

 of a partial study of modern British geology, shaped by the author's 

 views, and framed with the fragments of a belief in the Mosaic 

 cosmogony, laboriously w r orked up with his present notions of na- 

 tural science as elucidating the history of the earth and man. 



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ROYAL SOCIETY. 



April 22, 1869. — Joseph Prestwieh, Esq., Vice-President, in the 



Chair. 



" Description of Parkeria and Loftasia, two gigantic Types of 

 Arenaceous Foraminifera." By Dr. Carpenter, V.P.R.S., and 

 H. B. Brady, F.L.S. 



The Authors of this Memoir commence by referring to the separa- 

 tion of the series of Arenaceous Foraminifera from the Imperforate 

 or Porcellanous, and from the Tubular or Vitreous, first distinctly 

 propounded in Dr. Carpenter's ' Introduction to the Study of the 

 Foraminifera' (1862), on the basis of the special researches of 

 Messrs. Parker and Rupert Jones, who had pointed out that whilst 

 there are several genera in some forms of which a cementation of 

 sand-grains into the substance of the calcareous shell is a common 

 occurrence, there are certain genera in which a "test" formed en- 

 tirely of an aggregation of sand-grains takes the place of a calcareous 

 shell, and that these genera constitute a distinct Family to which 

 important additions might probably be made by further research. 



The propriety of this separation of the Arenacea from the calca- 

 reous-shelled Foraminifera has been fully recognized by Prof. Reuss, 

 the highest Continental authority upon the group, who had come to 

 accept the principle laid down in Dr. Carpenter's successive Memoirs 

 (Phil. Trans. 1856-1860), that the texture of the shell is a charac- 

 ter of fundamental importance in the classification of this group, 

 the plan of growth (taken by M. d'Orbigny as his primary character) 



