THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[FIFTH SERIES.] 
No. 48. DECEMBER 1881. 
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XL.—On some Arctic Foraminifera from Soundings obtained 
on the Austro-Hungarian North-Polar Expedition of 1872- 
1874. By Henry B. Brapy, F.R.S.* 
[Plate XXTI.] 
Towarps the end of last December I received from my friend 
Dr. F. Karrer, of Vienna, a parcel of soundings from Franz- 
Josef Land and the Novaya-Zemlya sea, obtained during the 
Austro-Hungarian North-Polar Expedition, with the intima- 
tion that he had been authorized by the Imperial Academy of 
Sciences to place them in my hands for investigation, and 
the suggestion that I should draw up a report upon the Micro- 
zoa contained in them for presentation to the Academy. 
My first duty under these circumstances is to express my 
thanks to the Academy for the courtesy which has afforded 
me the opportunity of reverting to a subject to which I have 
before given some attention, namely the distribution of minute 
forms of animal life in the seas of high latitudes. 
Before enlarging upon the results of the examination of the 
* Report presented to the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna— 
“ Ueber einige arktische Tiefsee-Foraminiferen, gesammelt wahrend der 
ésterreichisch-ungarischen Nordpol-Expedition in den Jahren 1872- 
1874,” Denkschriften d. math.-naturw. Cl. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. 
vol. xliii. p. 91, map and plate, 
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