THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 

 No. 45. SEPTEMBER 1871. 



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

 K. Parker, F.R.S., T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S., and H. B. 

 Brady, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



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



Part XIV. — The Species enumerated hy D'' Orhigny in the 

 ^Annates des Sciences Naturelles^ 1826, vol. vii.* 



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

 ' Testaceographia ac Zoophytographia.'' 



[Plates Vin.-XII.] 



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

 '■ Tableau JMethodique ' by Alcide Dessalines D'Orbigny f 

 must be regarded as the alphabet of the nomenclature of the 

 Foraminifera. It is true that a considerable number of the 

 specific names therein enumerated, and accepted by naturalists, 

 are derived from treatises of earlier date (a few from Linnd, 

 Batsch, Walker, and Montagu ; a larger series from Fichtel 

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

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

 associates with 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 Batsch'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. 



i See Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. v. pp. 98-116, and pp. 174-183. 



§ Ibid. vol. XV. pp. 225-232. 



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