The Fossil Foraminifera 
By 
RICHARD HOLLAND. 
I, Material and Localities whence derived. 
The material supplied to me for examination is exceedingly small in quantity 
but nevertheless it presents some points of considerable interest. It was sent to me 
in five small tubes and consisted of specimens already picked out from the matrix. 
Four of the tubes contained material from »Locality 12», that is to say from the 
remarkable uPecten-conglomerate'» of Cockburn Island, which dr. J. Gunnar Anders- 
SON, in his paper On the Geology of Graham Landg considers to be of Pliocene 
age. There is certainly nothing in the specimens of Foraminifera to lead anyone to 
dissent from this view. 
The label on the fifth tube ran as follows: — »Locality not noted, but most 
probably Loc. 4, Snow Hill, because of the complete similarity of the sample with 
the sediment of that locality.» A reference to Plate 6 of dr. Gunnar Andersson’s 
paper® shows »Locality 4» as being on what are known as the Snow Hill Beds. 
On p. 37 of dr. Gunnar Andersson's paper 3 however the following statement 
appears: — »Locality 4 at the southeastern corner of the ice-less peninsula has been 
erroneously marked on PI. 6 as belonging to the ’Snow Hill beds’. This place was 
discovered by the physician of the wintering party, dr. Ekelof, and NORDENSKJÖLD 
in his notes has named it ’Ekelöfs Locality’. Here was found in a soft cla}^ey matrix 
a fauna consisting of mostly small-sized, well preserved fossils, shells, corals, echinoid 
spines, etc. 
A very similar fauna was collected on Seymour Island, loc. 8. Apparently some 
species at least are common to both localities and the general appearance of both 
fauna and rock is the same in the two places. This identity of the faunas of loc. 4 
“ Bull. Geol. Instil. 
® Op. cil. Plate 6. 
3 Op. cit. p. 37. 
Upsala, Vol. VII, 1906, pp. 50 — 53. 
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MAY 29 1933 
