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On the Fossil Foraminifera from the 

 Government Boring at Hergott To^wn- 

 sHip, ^wiTH General Remarks on the 

 Section and on other forms of Migrozoa 



OBSERVED therein. 



By Walter Howchii^, F.G-.S. 



[Read December 2, 1884.] 



A short time ago a small quantity of material obtained from 

 ilie Grovernment boring at Hergott was placed in my bands 

 by Professor Tate to examine in the bope that a careful search 

 might reveal some forms of microzoa by which, at least, the 

 marine character or otherwise of the beds through which the 

 boring was carried might be determined. Mr. Clement L. 

 "Wragge, to whom Professor Tate was indebted for these 

 samples, kindly added to their quantity. I am also placed 

 under great obligation to Mr. Jas. AV. Jones, the Conservator 

 of Water, for his ready courtesy and liberality in placing 

 other samples of the core at my disposal. By this means 

 I have been enabled to test the microscopic contents of this 

 geological section throughout its entire depth. The figures 

 i]idicative of the various depths from w^hich the samples were 

 t;aken, I regret to say, are rather vague, but are the best in- 

 formation as to their respective geological horizons which was 

 at my disposal ; but this is of less consequence on account of 

 the great uniformity of the beds through which the bore 



I would also acknowledge my indebtedness to the great 

 work of my friend Mr. Henry Bowman Brady, P.R.S., on 

 the Foraminifera of the Challenger Expedition, which has 

 just been published by the British Government. When we 

 take into account the great number of new species therein 

 figured and described, the fulness of information on this par- 

 ticular field of zoological investigation which it supplies, and 

 the new facts as to the distribution and bathymetrical range 

 of the marine E-hizopoda, which are now for the first time 

 made public, the work must rank as one of the most important 

 contributions to the history of the Foraminifera that has ever 

 been published. Mr. Brady has found it necessary, in working 

 out the enormous quantity of new material which was placed 

 in his hands, to rearrange some groups, and this necessitated 

 some change in the nomenclature. I have in the following 

 remarks adopted Mr. Brady's classification, which will un- 



