BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The following is a catalogue of books and papers referring to the Foraminifera, arranged 
as nearly as possible according to date of publication. It was compiled for reference 
during the progress of the present Report, but as no general synopsis of the literature 
of the Foraminifera, of even approximate completeness, has been published since that of 
Prof. W. C. Williamson in 1858, it has been thought that it might be of like service to 
others working on the subject. 
To keep the list within reasonable dimensions it has been found needful to restrict 
it to papers bearing directly, in one way or other, upon the Reticularia, and except in a 
few instances where special reasons to the contrary exist, those relating exclusively to the 
Lobose and Radiolarian groups of Rhizopoda are omitted ; and for the same reason it has 
not been thought requisite to include the title of every geological treatise in which the 
mere occurrence of a Nummulitic rock or a Fusulina-limestone happens to be recorded. 
On the other hand, a few titles have been admitted of memoirs which relate to organisms 
of still unsettled zoological position, which, from similarity of structure, have either been 
classed by authors with the Foraminifera, or have been made the basis of closely allied 
groups. With some exceptions, reviews, abstracts, and reprints are omitted, as are also 
some of the less important contributions to the Eozoon controversy. Comparatively 
few works of the prse-Linnean era are named, as these for the most part have but 
little bearing on the practical study of the Foraminifera, even in relation to nomen- 
clature. The reader interested in the very early literature of the subject will find 
abundant references in the “ Saggio storico ” of Michelotti, in the footnotes of MM. 
d’Archiac and Haime’s classical memoir on Nummulites (pp. 8-23), and in the 
introductory chapters of Dr. Philippe cle la Harpe’s projected, but alas ! unfinished, 
monograph of the same group. 
It may be noted here that memoirs published in series are placed together in the 
list, under the date of the first of the set. In the publications of each year the names of 
the authors are arranged alphabetically. 
1565. Gesner, Conrad, De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, &c. 8vo. Zurich. 
1667. Hooke, R., Micrographia ; or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, made by Magnifying 
Glasses, with Observations and Inquiries thereupon, Pol., 38 plates. London. 
1678. Lister, M., Historic animalium Anglise tres tractatus. — Unus de Araneis. Alter de Cochleis turn 
terrestribus turn tluviatilibus. Tertius de Cochleis marinis, &c., 9 plates. 4to. London. 
(ZOOL. CHALL. EXP.— PART XXII. 1883.) Y 1 
