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An important memoir on Trocliammina ( Ammodiscus ) pusilla and its 
allies was written by Messrs Jones, Parker, and Kirkby, in 1869. This was 
followed in 1876 by Dr. II. B. Brady’s monograph on the Carboniferous and 
Permian Foraminifera, an exhaustive work which summarised our knowledge 
of the group from these formations, and added much that was new. 
From the Bellerophon- kalk of the Alps, Gtimbel, in 1878, obtained 
and enumerated several species of Foraminifera. 
The British Museum catalogue of Fossil Foraminifera by Prof. Rupert 
Jones contains the earliest record of the Tasmanian foraminifer now referred 
to as Nubecularia stephensi, but which was there recorded as a “ new species 
of Cornuspira F In this work there are also enumerated nine species in the 
museum collection from the Permian of England and Germany. 
Coming nearer home, the discovery of Foraminifera in the Permo- 
Carboniferous rocks of the north-east of Tasmania by Mr. Tlios. Stephens, has 
an especial interest for us. The occurrence was noted in the proceedings of 
the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1889, p. 54, and the various forms met 
with were described and figured by one of us in the report of the Adelaide 
meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science for 
1893 (1894). This was followed in the succeeding yeaPby the description of 
species of Cornuspira, Nodosaria and Frondicularia from beds of probably 
similar age in the Irwin district, IV. Australia. Since then, Spandel has 
published two important papers, one of which deals with the Foraminifera of 
the Zechstein of Germany, the other with similar fossils from the Permo- 
Carboniferous of Kansas. The former paper usefully summarised the 
foraminiferal fauna of the Zechstein, and also contains descriptions and 
figures of some new forms, including the interesting genera Geinitzella 
(afterwards changed to Geinitzina ) and Lunucammina. The second paper 
of Spandel’s contains an account of some new genera and species, determined, 
however, from specimens seen in section, in thin slices of rock. 
The general facies of the Foraminifera of the newest upper Palaeozoic 
series is further dealt with in a lately published work by one of us (2, pp. 
258-260.) 
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