Manchester Memoirs, Vol. Ixii. (19 17) v. 



INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITORS. 



Edward Halkyard, who died on the 19th June, 1917, in the 

 64th year of his age, was probably little known, personally, to 

 his contemporary workers upon the Protozoa as, owing to poor 

 health and a .retiring disposition, he mixed very little in zoo- 

 logical circles.. He was, however, a keen student of the Fora- 

 minifera and carried on an extensive correspondence with other 

 workers in the same field of research. Earland became per- 

 sonally acquainted with hirn at some time between 1885 and 

 1888, through meeting him at the Royal Microscopical Society, 

 of which Halkyard was a Fellow, and subsequently corresponded 

 with him for several years. He was at that time working out 

 the Foraminifera of the Channel Islands and during the years 

 1887 — 1 ^90 Earland made numerous gatherings and collections 

 in Jersey, with the view of furnishin;g material to Halkyard, 

 who was particularly anxious to rediscover Haliphysema 

 tumanowiczii, Bowerbank, which had been recorded by Savile 

 Kent from that island in 1878, but had since then escaped the 

 notice of Halkyard and other naturalists- The species was 

 eventually rediscovered in abundance in the St. Ouen's Bay 

 area, but too late for inclusion in Halkyard's paper "Recent 

 Foraminifera of Jersey" which was published by the Man- 

 chester Microscopical Society in 1889. A record of the dis- 

 covery, however, appears in his subsequent paper "A Com- 

 parative List of the Recent Foraminifera of the Islands of 

 Guernsey, Herm and Jersey" published by the same Society in 

 1891. These two papers possess a value to students of the 

 group out of all proportion to their modest size, and to this day 

 constitute the sum of our knowledge of the Foraminifera of 

 the Channel Islands. A third paper "Plans of Growth and 

 Form in the Foraminifera" published by the Manchester Micros- 

 copical Society in 1893 concluded his contributions, published in 

 his life-time, to the literature of the Foraminifera. 



About this time he became interested in the Eocene Marls 

 of Biarritz, as his paper shows that he first became acquainted 

 with the locality in the spring of 1893. Between that date and 

 1902 he appears to have made several visits for the purpose of 

 collecting material. A letter from Halkyard to Heron-Allen 

 dated 1st October, 1894, lies before us in which he tells us that 

 the principal collection was made in November, 1893. In this 



