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Mr. II. J. Carter on For ami nifor ct. 
one of the beautiful illustrations in liis exhaustive refutation 
of the eozoonal myth (pi. xl. fig. 58, Palgeontographica, 
xxv. iii. F. i.), applies to all three. 
In Squamulina scopula , var. ramosa (Ann. 1870, vol. v. 
p. 389), the tribulation arises singly from a pseudopolythala- 
mous test, whose sarcodic segments uniting together in the 
centre, as in the columella of Carpentaria, are continued up¬ 
wards and outwards within a single tube that divides dichoto- 
mously two or three times, when each of the branches is 
terminated by a scopuliform head consisting of foreign bodies, 
chiefly sponge-spicules, entire and fragmentary, kept in 
their situation by chitine, in the midst of which is a 
single aperture, from which the sarcode issues in the usual 
form of foraminiferal filamentous prolongation. The whole 
of the tribulation, together with the test, is formed of foreign 
bodies, viz. sand and sponge-spicules, and thus is but an 
apertural extension from the summit, of a simple form, like 
that of Squamulina varians. 
With reference to Squamulina scopula, = Halyphysema 
Tumanowiczii, Bk.,the Rev. A.M. Norman, after having stated 
(Ann. 1878, vol. i. p. 265) that he has u undertaken to edit the 
fourth and last [posthumous] volumeof my late friend Dr. Bower- 
bank’s 1 Monograph of the British Spongiadaa,’ ” observes that 
“ the genus Dysidea or Spongelia affords an almost exact paral¬ 
lel ” of Haliphysema —finally proposing a new order of Sponges 
for the species and allies of Haliphysema under the name of 
“ Psammoteichina ” (ib. p. 272). A more unfortunate an¬ 
nouncement, arising from an utter disregard of structural pecu¬ 
liarities, can hardly be conceived, as Mr. Saville Kent’s subse¬ 
quent communication (Ann. 1878, vol. ii. p. 68, pis. iv. & v.), 
which is confirmative of my original descriptions and illustra¬ 
tions (ib. 1870, vol. v. pis. iv. and v.), proves. After this 
Mr. Norman, from the same kind of disregard, not recognizing 
at once the real nature of his Technitella legumen and T. melo, 
which any one microscopically acquainted with the testaceous 
Rhizopoda could hardly doubt, ends by observing, of Technitella 
and Marsipella , that u they appear to be genera incertce sedis, 
to which it is desirable to call attention in common with 
Haliphysema .” 
Since this was published, specimens of Technitella legumen 
have been submitted for my examination from Scotland; and 
the neat and regular manner in which the test is formed of 
marine sponge-spicules of the same shape, arranged side by 
side all in the same longitudinal direction, so as to form a 
comparatively long sac with constricted and marginated aper¬ 
ture, forcibly recalls to mind one of the most striking although 
common features of the freshwater testaceous Rhizopoda, in 
