430 Mr. H. B. Brady on the Reticularia and 
Jones, in the ‘ Philosophical Transactions ’ for 1865, forms the 
text-book of the subject. It contains the results of the ex- 
amination of the soundings taken by Sir EH. Parry in Baffin’s 
Bay, between latitudes 74° 45' and 76° 30! N.; of those of 
Dr. Sutherland off the Hunde Islands, on the west coast of 
Greenland, in lat. 68° 50! N.; and of dredgings made by Mr. 
M‘Andrew off the coast of Norway, between lat. 65° and 71° 
N. Mr. Norman’s material consisted of dredgings brought 
home by Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys from his cruise in the ‘ Valo- 
rous,’ the vessel, it will be remembered, which sailed in com- 
pany with the ‘ Alert’ and ‘ Discovery,’ as far as Disco 
{sland, on their northward voyage. The record of Mr. Nor- 
man’s observations on the Rhizopoda, which, so far as they 
affect our present purpose, refer to an area lying between 
about lat. 59° and lat. 70° N., forms one section of the general 
scientific report submitted to the Royal Society. A notice by 
Dr. Carpenter of a few of the larger ferms appeared at the 
same time. 
Messrs. Parker and Jones’s memoir is accompanied by a 
series of elaborate distribution-tables, one of which is devoted 
to the Arctic fauna. Of the twenty localities it comprises, 
seven belong to the group of soundings from Baffin’s Bay, 
five to the Hunde Islands, and eight to the Norwegian coast. 
In all seventy-five species of Foraminifera are enumerated ; 
and of these twenty appear in the Norwegian list only. A 
condensed statement of the results embodied in Messrs. Parker 
and Jones’s Table will be found in the three columns (a, 3, c) 
appended to that which accompanies the present paper. A 
ready means of comparison is thereby afforded, and the subject 
need not, therefore, be further dwelt upon. 
The ‘ Valorous ’. report cannot, unfortunately, be treated in 
the same way, as it contains no detailed lists of the Foramini- 
fera. I propose, therefore, in order to complete the summary 
of what Las been hitherto written on the subject, to cull from 
the Rev. A. M. Norman’s paper (Proc. Roy. Soe. vol. xxv. 
pp. 207-213) such particulars as he gives relative to the dis- 
tribution of species in those localities that come within the 
sphere of our present inquiry. Having had the opportunity 
of looking over the fine collection of Foraminifera obtained 
from the ‘ Valorous’ material, I may be permitted to express 
my regret that circumstances have hitherto prevented Mr. 
Norman from giving his results to the world. They are of 
great interest and cost much labour; and the details would 
have been a valuable contribution to the literature of the 
Rhizopoda. Four of these dredgings were from points within 
the Arctic Circle; and two others, from the Stations num- 
