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whole, and, with the specimens, to hand in as complete lists 
as I can of the species in each class. 
The richness of the coast of Galway is well known to every 
student of British Marine Zoology ; for to whatever branch 
of the subject he devotes himself he finds alike that here 
some of his rarest treasures are to be obtained. It is not 
with the hope of making known to you much that is new 
that I am led to introduce this subject to your notice, but 
chiefly because I am convinced that natural history work 
amongst ourselves is best promoted by the formation of exact 
lists of the species which we actually know to have been 
found at some particular localities ; and such lists of Conne- 
mara specimens, imperfect as they must necessarily be at 
first, I have now to lay before you. It is however no more 
than might be expected that in the course of careful examina- 
tions of so many objects some points have occurred to me 
which I think worthy of notice, and these I shall mention as 
I come to them in their natural order. 
In the first place I have to show specimens of three species 
of Nulli pore— namely, N. polymorpha, N. calcarea, and N. 
fasciculata ; also N. calcarea var. depressa. 
The list of Foraminifera is an extensive one, especially 
considering that all my specimens are from shore sand and 
from one locality. This sand is from Dogs Bay, Roundstone, 
and consists of many kinds of small shells of Mollusca, 
among which Rissorn and Lacunae are most noticeable at 
first sight, fragments of Lepraliae and other Zoophytes, 
spines of Amphidotus, and sponge spicula, while the finer 
parts are made up entirely of Foraminifera. Of these I 
have found 58 species and named varieties, and also six 
very distinct forms which are not mentioned in Professor 
Williamson’s Monograph on Recent British Foraminifera. 
Specimens of these, and of all the other forms contained in 
the list are mounted for inspection. 
In the course of my frequent examinations of these objects 
