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MICRO-PALiEONTOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN 

 CARBONIFEROUS SHALES. 



By GEORGE R. VINE, 



Attercliffe, Sheffield ; Secretary of the British Association' Covnnittee on Fossil Polyzoa. 



(Concluded from page 320.) 



VI.-CARB ONIFEEOUS SHALES, NOBTHUMBERLAND AND 

 ISrORTH LANCASHIKE, &c. SCAUR LIMESTONE AND 

 YOREDALE BOCKS. FORAMINIFERA, &c. 



The Foraminifera of these Northern Rocks have been so well worked 

 by Mr. H. B. Brady, Prof. Lebour, and the Rev. W. Howchin, that 

 it may appear at first sight almost superfluous to refer to them at all. 

 As, however, the Monograph is not in everybody's hands, and as 

 students of these papers may have some difficulty in referring to its 

 pages, unless they live in the vicinity of large libraries, I need not 

 make any further apology than this, as an introduction to the following 

 remarks on species in my own cabinet. 



The Foraminifera both of the Upper and Lower Shales are 

 tolerably well preserved in the Northumberland districts; and the 

 few species that I owe to the kindness of Mr. J. W. Kirkby, from 

 the North Lancashire districts, are also very fine. Species, however, 

 are not what may be called abundant in any of the Shale washings 

 originally supplied to me by the Rev. W. Howchin ; but immediately 

 after the publication of the first of this series of papers. Prof. G. A. 

 Lebour sent me the following list of the horizon and range of species 

 in Northumberland. I have not as yet met with the whole of the 

 Foraminifera catalogued, and against the absent forms, according 

 to my own experience, I place (*) after the figures, and where 

 my specimens are doubtful (?). 



BERNICEAN FORAMINIFERA OF NORTHUMBERLAND, 



After H. B. BRADY and Prof. G. A. LEBOUR. 





Genera and Species. 



Lower 

 Bernicean — 



Scar 

 Limestone. 



Upper 



Bernicean — 

 Yoredale 

 Rocks. 



I * 



Archiediscus karreri Brady 







2 ? 



Bigenerina patula Brady 







3 



Endothyra ammonoides Brady 







4 



, , bowmani Ph illips 



* 



* 



5? 



cxdiSSd. Brady 



-X- 





6 ? 



globulus EicJnvald 



* 





7? 

 8 



,, macella Brady ... 







obliqua Brady 





* 



Nov. 1885. 



