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Taking the recent Mediterranean Foraminifera systematically, we 

 commence with the littoral fauna, comprising those met with in the 

 seaweed-zone, and those washed up hy the waves and found between 

 the tidal lines, or occasionally in sand-hanks blown up by the wind. 

 Amongst those obtained under these circumstances are the numerous 

 specimens found in sponges, when the latter have been thrown on 

 the shore and trampled or washed about in the sand. Samples of 

 such littoral shell-sand we have from the Golfo di Spezzia*, Leghornf, 

 and Crete $, from shores having a western aspect ; from the sand- 

 bank of Lido § (Venice), and from Bimini ||, in the Adriatic. The 

 equivalent deposits of the Levant, including those off the Nile, we 

 retain for future description. 



Our selected examples from the next stages of sea- depths are 

 from 40 fathoms at Suda Bay, north side of Crete %, from 90 fathoms 

 off Syra in the Archipelago**, from 170 fathoms off Serpho in the 

 Archipelago ff, from 250 fathoms to the north-west of Crete JJ, from 

 300 fathoms near Crete §§, from 500 fathoms near Ipsaxa in the 

 Archipelago |i ||, from 1100 fathoms between Crete and Santorin^|*|[, 

 from 1620 and 1650 fathoms between Malta and Crete***, and from 

 1700 fathoms between Malta and the Archipelago fff. 



The fossil Foraminifera of the Mediterranean area will be illus- 

 trated in our columns by lists of species from the Tejares clay of 

 Malaga, the shelly beds of Turin, several deposits from Sienna, the 

 shell-beds of Palermo, the fossiliferous Tertiaries of Malta, those of 

 the Vienna basin, and lastly, from a shell-bed at Baljik, near Varna, 

 on the Black Sea. The last three of these deposits are regarded as 

 being of Miocene age, — the others, with one or two exceptions, as 

 Pliocene. 



The richest of these are the Siennese Subapennine beds, samples 

 of which have been freely communicated to us by Prof. Meneghini 

 and the Marchese Carlo Strozzi (through the hands of our friend Dr. 

 Falconer). The following is the list of these beds from which we 

 have specimens (Nos. 1-8 are from Prof. Meneghini; Nob. !» 1 2 from 

 March. C. Strozzi). — 1. Blue clay, from Cerajolo and Santo Donnino 

 (see Soldani's * Testaceographia,' vol. ii. p. 26). 2. Blue clay, from 

 S. Lazzaro, near Sir una (see Soldani, • Testaceographia,' vol. ii. p. 42). 



'.'> and I. Blue clay, from Coi'oiicina, near Simna (see Soldani. • Tes- 

 taceographia,' vol. ii. p. 79). 5. Blue clay, from 8. Quirico, nol Par 

 from Sienna. 6. Clay, from Pescaja, near Sienna (rich in Entomo- 

 8traca,\m\ poor in Foraminifera). 7. Sand, from Pienza, in the 

 Siennese. s . Clay, from Monte Arioso, near Sienna. 9, "Sabbie 

 Gialle di Montopoli," Tuscany (upper Pliocene). 10. Castell' Ar- 

 quato nel Piacentino | Pliocene). I 1. " 1 ). 1I«- Crete Senesi " | Lower 



* Prom Prof. Meneghini 



t Prom Mr. W..F. Hamilton and the Maroheee Carlo Stress. 



i omMr.Dinea. S Prom Mr. W. J. Hamilton. 



I Prom Prof. Meneghini and the Maroheee 0. Strom. 

 ■ Prom Mr. Huxley. ** Prom Oapt Spratt 



tt Prom Oapt S rat*. om Oapt Spratt 



SS Prom Mr. Hilton. Prom Cap) Spratt «« Prom Oapt Spratt 



*** From Oapt Sprat* ,M Prom Cap) Spratt 



