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zone" (15-50 fiithoms) and tlie " Coral zone" (50-100 fathoms) 

 of Davis' Strait. lAigence nbonnd in tliesc dredgings at from 

 30 to 70 fathoms ; Polymorphina is small here and rather com- 

 mon ; Uvigerina common at from 30 to 70 fathoms, but small. 

 Globigcrincc are not rare at the same depths, but are very 

 small. Truncatulina {Planorhulina) flourishes at all the depths 

 (25-70 fathoms). Pulvinulina is freely represented by the small 

 P. Karsteni. Discorbina gets more abundant with the greater 

 depth. The simple forms of Polf/stomella, including the feeble 

 NonionincB, have their home evidently in this region. Cassidulina 

 abounds, but is not large. A small Nummulina, the feeble repre- 

 sentative of a once highly potent species, still abounding in some 

 warm seas, is not wanting in the " Coralline zone." The essen- 

 tially Arctic form of Bullmma [B. clegantissima) flourishes at 

 from 30 to 70 fathoms at the Hunde Islands, and other varieties 

 are not wanting, though not abundant. The Textularice are re- 

 presented by some small specimens of the type, and by three of 

 its modifications in small but numerous individuals. Sphilliiia 

 is very rare and small. Patellina is small and common from 30 

 to 70 fathoms. Trochammina is common, though small, in the 

 deepest soundings. Cornuspira is common at the least and the 

 greatest depths. Quinqueloculina is common, but not large, 

 throughout. Triloculina occurs freely at 25 to 30 fathoms. 

 Lituola abounds from 25 to 70 fathoms. 



XXIV. — FORAMINIFERA fiom Baffin's Bay. Bv Prof. 

 W. K. Parker, F.E.S. ; iind Prof. T. Rupert Jones, 

 F.R.S. From a Memoir on some Foraminifera from 

 the North Atlantic Oceans, including Davis' Strait and 

 Baffin s Bay : Phil. Trans, civ. 1865, pp. 325, &c. 



Soundings from Baffin's Bay, between 76° 30' and 74° 45' N. 

 lat., derived from seven deep-sea soundings and some iceberg mud 

 taken during one of the Arctic Expeditions under Sir Edward 

 Parry. 



This material from the " Arctic Province " of naturalists * is 

 but scanty. None of the Foraminifera here obtained are numerous 

 except Polystomella striatopimctata, Nonionina scapha, Trun- 

 catulina lobatula, and Cassidulina IcEvigata, the first two of 

 which are at home in Arctic waters ; and none have attained 

 here a large size except Lituolce. The material from 150 

 fathoms yielded these relatively large and numerous specimens. 



I. — From lat. 75° 10', long. 60° 12' ; ? fathoms ; fine grey syenitic 

 sand, with syenitic fragments : Dentalina, Lagena^ Truncatidina, 

 Polystomella and Nonionina, Cassidulina, Q,idnquelocidina, 

 Lituola. 



* See E. Forbes and II. Godwin- Austen's " Natural History of the European 

 Seas." 8vo. London, Van Voorst, 1853. 



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