the Nomenclature of the Foramimfera. 153 



rarely, if ever, recorded any one of them as illustrative of a 

 typical form under the impression that it deserved special 

 notice and name. In general, if not always, he selected the 

 figures because they seemed to him to be good or fair illustra- 

 tions of specimens that he himself obtained from the several 

 recent and fossil sea-sands enumerated at pages 249, 250 of 

 the Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. vii. as having been given to him by 

 his friends. Among these communications were fossil sands 

 from Sienna and other parts of Italy, some packets of which 

 had been given by SoJdani to M. Fleurian de Bellevue. In 

 recording the "localities" of the species illustrated in the 

 ^ Testaceographia,' D'Orbigny seems to have ignored Soldani's 

 account of their finding-places and habitats altogether. We 

 have compared the localities recorded by the two writers; and 

 when Soldani's and D'Orbigny's statements do not coincide, 

 we have added Soldani's in brackets ; and in these cases so 

 much is added to our knowledge of the distribution of these 

 Foraminifera. It is occasionally impossible to get the exact 

 habitat for the Soldanian figures, as they were drawn from 

 individuals of a mixed group of supposed or real allies, taken 

 from two or more places, especially (for instance) from both 

 the Adriatic and the Tuscan sea. 



In quoting Soldani's descriptive appellations of the forms 

 selected afterwards by D'Orbigny as types of binomial species 

 (or, rather, as published representations of Foraminifera that 

 he met with in recent or fossil sea-deposits from various parts 

 of the world), we have either taken the general name Soldani 

 gave to the set that he grouped together (and then it appears 

 for the most part in the plural) j or, whenever possible, we 

 have taken the term that he applied to the individual shell 

 (and then it is in the singular). As Soldani did not, however, 

 use the Linnean mode of nomenclature, the terms applied by 

 him to individuals and groups would not necessarily have 

 been adopted by D'Orbigny even if he had studied the text 

 with the intention of learning Soldani's views. 



1. Nodosaria [GlanduUna) Icevigata, D'Orbigny. 

 PI. IX. fig. 34. 



" Polymorpha Sph(Brul<2 vitrece Iceves ;" Soldani, Testae. Tol. i. pt. 2. p. 116, 

 pi, 118. fig. E. D'Orbigny, Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. vii. p. 252. no. 1. 



" Hah. Recent in the Adriatic ; fossil near Sienna." (Me- 

 diterranean [?], Soldani.) 



This has been noticed in a previous paper on some of 

 D'Orbigny's species (Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. xii. p. 439). 

 It represents a good subtype of the Nodosarina;. Soldani's 



