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" species." At any rate, I have met with few records except 

 in the case of those marine testaceous Ehizopods (I here use 

 the term in the wide sense, equalling the class Sarcodina) 

 known as the Foraminifera, though it is quite possible there 

 may be some others in microscopical journals which I have 

 not yet been able to examine fully. 



Forty to fifty years ago Dr Strethill Wright — one of the 

 most accurate observers of his day — described or recorded 

 in our Proceedings (vols, i.-iii.) and elsewhere, a number 

 of marine forms, both of Ehizopods and Infusorians (Ciliata 

 and Suctoria), from the Firth of Forth. ^ One of the former, 

 it is interesting to recall, he named Boderia turneri, after 

 Mr (now Sir) Wm. Turner.^ Another was the gigantic 

 (for a Ehizopod) Groniia oviformis, Duj.: S'pirillina 'perforata ^ 

 Dendrophrya radiata, and D, erecta, three Foraminifera, were 

 also recorded by him.^ Of Infusoria his records seem to 

 include eight or nine from the estuary. 



Prior to 1870 H. B. Brady examined the mud of the 

 upper part of the estuary at Bo'ness for Foraminifera, and 

 incorporated the results in his important paper on the 

 brackish-water species, published in the Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History for that year (p. 273). Prof. F. E. 

 Schulze's Eeport on the Foraminifera collected by the Ger- 

 man North Sea Expedition of 1872,^ also contains a number 

 of records from the shores of the Firth of Forth. These two 

 sets of records, and a number of fresh ones from material 

 dredged by themselves off Inchkeith, and examined by Mr 

 F. G. Pearcey, enabled Leslie and Herdman to include a list of 



^ For a list of Dr Strethill Wright's papers and communications, see 

 obituary notice of him by Dr J. A. Smith, in Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin.^ 

 vol. iv. p. 102. Besides our Proceedings, the Edin. Phil. Jour., the Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. , etc. , should be consulted for records by Dr "Wright. 



^ Proceedings, vol. iii. p. 153. I am not aware that Bod.eria turneri has 

 again been seen. Prof. Hartog tells me it is given as probably a "Reticulose " 

 in Delage and Herouard's 'Traite de Zoologie Concrete,' vol. i. (1896). 

 Cf. also Rhumbler, " Systematische Zusammenstelluug der recenten 

 Reticulosa, " in Arch. f. Protistenkunde, vol. iii. (1903), Heft 2. , and Biitschli, 

 Protozoa, in Bronn's ' Thier-Eeich.' 



^ Proceedings, vol. ii. pp. 82, 273, 276. D. erecta was found again in the 

 original locality (Granton Old Quarry) by David Robertson (T. Scott. 

 Fishery Board'' s Eighth Kept., pt. iii. p. 317). 

 Jahresbericht der Kommission, etc., 1874. 



