EDITORIAL NOTE. 
The Report on the Foraminifera by Mr. H. B. Brady, F.R.S., &c., occupies 
the whole of the present volume, the text and the plates being bound up 
separately. The Report forms Part XXII. of the Zoological Series of Reports 
on the Scientific Results of the Expedition, and is the largest which has been 
published up to the present time. 
The representatives of this group of animals are universally distributed 
over the floor of the ocean and in the surface and subsurface waters, and 
moreover the presence or absence of the calcareous shells of certain Pelagic 
Species in the deposits from different depths and localities is intimately con- 
nected with some of the most interesting and intricate problems of General 
Oceanography. 
It was of prime importance for the discussion of these questions relating 
to geographical and bathymetrical distribution to have a thorough revision 
of our knowledge of existing species and varieties, and it must be regarded 
as a fortunate circumstance that a naturalist so familiar with the Foraminifera 
as Mr. Brady should have undertaken such a very laborious piece of work. 
It would be difficult to overestimate the amount of labour involved in a 
careful examination of the large quantity of material which Mr. Brady took 
as the basis of his Report, together with the comparison, determination, 
delineation, and description of the various species and numerous series of 
forms. 
The Report itself is the best evidence of the success which has attended 
Mr. Brady’s investigations, and it is not too much to say that this extensive 
Memoir will be an indispensable boon to all future workers in this branch of 
Research. 
John Murray. 
Challenger Office, 32 Queen Street, 
Edinburgh, 8th July 1884. 
