192 PARKER AND JONES ON FORAMINIFERA. 



XXIII. — FORAMINIFERA from the Hunde Islands in South- 

 east or Disco Bay, Davis' Strait, on the West Coast 

 of Greenland (lat. 68° 50' W., long. 53° N.), from 

 soundings taken by Dr. P. C. Sutherland in 1850. 

 By Professors W. K. Parker, F.K.S., and T. Rupert 

 Jones, F.R.S. From a Memoir on some Foraminifera 

 from the North- Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including 

 Davis' Strait and Baffin's Bay : Phil. Trans, civ., 1865, 

 pp. 326, &;c. 



I. Hunde Islands, 25 to 30 fathoms. Pale-grey micaceous clay ; 

 more than half small mica-flakes. With vegetable matter (Fucal) ; 

 Hy drozosk {Sertula7'ia) ; Volyzon (^Berenicea, &c.) ; Entomostraca 

 ( Cythere, &c.) ; bivalve and uuivalve MoUusca. Foraminifera :— 

 Polymorphina, Truncatulina^ Pulvinulina, Polystomella, Nonio' 

 nina, Nummulina, Cassidulina, Bulimhia, Textularia and Fcr- 

 neuilina, Cornuspira, Quhiqueloculina, Triloculina, Lituola, 



II. 28 to 30 fathoms. Gravel of hornblende-schist and syenite. 

 Sea-weed {Fucus) ; Nullipores ; fragments of Balanus (predomi- 

 nant) ; Crustacea ( Talitrus, Cythei'e, &c.) ; spines and plates of 

 Echinus; Polyzoa ; Univalves and Bivalves. Foraminifera: — 

 Globigerina, Truncatulina^ Piclvinulina, Discorbina, PolystO' 

 mella, Nonionina, Cassidulina^ Quinqueloculina, Lituola, 



III. 30 to 40 fathoms. Shelly sandy mud, with syenitic frag- 

 ments. Fragments of Balani ; Cythere ; Serpula ; spines of 

 Echinus; Bivalves and Univalves. Foraminifera: — Nodosaria, 

 Cristellaria, Lagena^ Polymorphi7ia^ Uvigerina, Globigerina, 

 Truncatulina, Pulvinulina^ Discorbina, Polystomclla, Nonionina, 

 {Jassidulina, Bulimina, Virgulina, Bolivina, Textularia^ VerneU' 

 ilina^ Patellina, Trochammina, Quinqueloculiiia, Lituola. 



IV. 50 to 70 fathoms. Shelly, fine, syenitic sand. Serpula, 

 Bivalves and Univalves. Foraminifera : — Lagena, Polymorphina, 

 Uvigeri7ia, Truncatidina^ Pulvinulina^ Discorbina^ PolystomeUa^ 

 Nonionina, Cassiduli7ia, Patellina, Quinqueloculina, Lituola, 



V. 60 to 70 fathoms. Shelly, sandy, syenitic mud. Serpula, 

 Balanus (predominant) ; Univalves and Bivalves. Forminifera :— 

 Dentalinaj Ciistellaria, Lage^ia, Polymorphina, Uvigerina, Glo' 

 digerina^ Truncatulinay Pulvinuliiia, Discorbina^ Polystomella, 

 Nonionina^ Cassidulina, Bulimina, Virgulina, Bolivina, TextU' 

 laria, Bigenerina, Vei'neuilina, Spii'illina, Patellina, Trocham- 

 mina, Cornuspira, Quinqueloculina, Trilocidina, Lituola, 



The five specimens of sea-bottom above-mentioned, taken at 

 depths of from 25 to 70 fathoms, and consisting mainly of shelly 

 muddy sands, afford a good local example of the Foramiuiferal 

 fauna of the " Arctic Province "* of naturalists, at the " Coralline 



* See " The Natural History of the European Seas," by E. Forbes and 

 U. Godwin- Austen, pp. 28, &c. 8vo. Van Voorst, London, 1853. 



