Mr. H. B. Brady on some Arctic Foraminifera. 397 
is too small (less than 0°2 gramme) to be considered in any 
respect representative. 
C. No. 502. 12th August, 1872. Lat. 76° 14’ N., Long. 
58° 54! H. Depth 100 metres (55 fathoms). 
Siliceous sand, with a large proportion of dark-coloured 
grains of slate, trap, hypersthene, &c. 
Only a small sounding, but tolerably rich in Foraminifera. 
It also contained specimens of one species of Ostracoda, Cythe- 
ridea Sorbyana, Jones. 
D. No. 503. 30th August, 1872. Lat. 76° 25! N., Long. 62° 
43’ KE. Depth 130 metres (70 fathoms). 
Grey siliceous sand, with fragments of a dark-coloured 
porous rock, probably volcanic, and occasional grains of mag- 
netite. Rich in Foraminifera, twenty-seven species in all, of 
which Nonionina scapha is especially remarkable for size and 
abundance. 
HE. No. 504. 16th September, 1872. Lat. 76° 36’ N., 
Long. 61° 7’ E. Depth 100 metres (55 fathoms), mud. 
Grey siliceous sand, with fragments of slate and particles 
of the red earth before mentioned. 
Contained thirty species of Foraminifera, as well as the 
following Ostracoda :— 
Cythere leioderma, Norman. Cytheridea punctillata, Brady. 
Cytheridea Sorbyana, Jones. Cytheropteron angulatum, Brady. 
F. No. 506. 2nd October, 1872. Lat. 76° 59’ N., Long. 
65° 49’ EH. Depth 170 metres (93 fathoms), mud. 
Siliceous sand, with particles of slate and schist, and frag- 
ments of trap, possibly basalt. 
Moderately rich in Foraminifera, especially the smaller 
arenaceous forms. Contained also broken bits of an Ophiurid 
and some small Kchinus-spines, together with the following 
species of Ostracoda :— 
Cythere leioderma, Norman. Cytheridea punctillata, Brady. 
— dunelmensis, Norman. HKucythere argus, G. O. Sars. 
G. No. 514a. 17th May, 1873. Franz-Josef Land. Depth 
230 metres (125 fathoms), mud. 
Consists almost entirely of the tests of Saccammina spherica, 
either entire or broken. These are constructed of siliceous 
sand. ‘There are also a few fragments of slate present. 
Tolerably rich in Foraminifera; the only sounding in which 
Haplophragmium subglobosum (one of the most important 
