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Among those who object to the animal origin of “ Eozoon ” are : — 
Messrs. King and Rowney, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxii. pp. 185-218, 
1866; 
H. J. Carter, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. vol. xvi. 1875, p. 420 ; 
5th ser. vol. i. 1878, p. 310 ; 
K. Mobius, ‘ Palaeontographica,’ Band xxv. 1879, pp. 175-192, Taf. 23-40; 
, ‘ Nature,’ July 17 & 24, 1879. 
II. THE RECEPTACULIDH2. 
(See pages 2-4.) 
These Rhizopodal fossils are not exhaustively treated of in this place. Some 
only of the best-known of the Receptaculites , Ischadites, Splicer ospongia, and 
Sphrceronites are represented in the collection. 
Receptaculites was referred definitely to the Foraminifera, and to a special 
family (the Receptaculidce), by Hr. C. W. Giimbel in 1875. It possesses a 
skeleton consisting of two walls or floors, made lip of rhombic plates, fitting one 
to another. These floors or decks are separated, and at the same time supported 
and united, by a great number of thickish, calcareous, vascular columns, which 
are individually traversed by an internal canal, ending in ramifications in each 
of the floors. This constitutes an anastomosing canal-system, corresponding 
with that of some Foraminifera, especially the Dactyloporidse. Ischadites , 
Koenig, and Tetragonis , Eichwald, also belong to the group of Receptaculidce. 
For the Bibliography of these fossils, the following works are important : — 
J. W. Salter. “Figures and Descriptions of Canadian Organic Remains.” 
Decade I. Geol. Survey of Canada. 8vo. Montreal, 1859, p. 43, pi. 10. 
E. Billings. “ Notes on some of the more remarkable Genera of Silurian and 
Devonian Fossils,” Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, new ser. vol. ii. 1865, 
p. 184 &c., woodcut. 
J. J. Bigsby. Thesaurus Siluricus, 4to. London, 1868, p. 4 ; and Thesaurus 
Devonico-Carboniferus, 4to, London, 1878, p. 6. 
C. W. Gumbel. “ Remarks on the Organization and Systematic Position of 
Receptaculites,” Transact. Royal Bavarian Acad. Sciences; Math.-phys. Class, 
vol. xii. part 1. 4to. Munich, 1875, pi. A.; Geol. Mag. 2nd ser. vol. iii. 
p. 127. 
J. W. Dawson. The Dawn of Life. 8vo. London, 1875, p. 162. 
Nicholson. Palaeontology. 2nd edit. vol. i. p. 126. 
HI. FUSULINA, Fischer de Waldheim. 
(See pages 5 & 6.) 
Fusulince characterize certain rocks of the Carboniferous System in Spam 
(Cantabrian chain) and the Southern Alps (Upper Carniola and Carinthia), 
Russia (in many localities), the Caucasus (Armenia and Azerbeidjan), Isle of 
Chios, North America (California, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, and 
Texas, including Permian species), Borneo, Sumatra. 
For the Bibliography see : — 
For the Alps : 
E. Suess. Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, 1870; and Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 
vol. xxvi. Miscell. part, p. 3. 
G. Stache. Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, 1876; and Geol. Mag. n. s. vol. iv. 
p. 165. 
For Russia : 
Rschewsky, 1826; Fischer de Waldheim, 1830; J. Bock, Ehrenberg, 
1842-1854 ; Rouillier and Vosinsky, 1849 ; d’Eichwald, 1859. These 
and many observers of Russian Fusulince are referred to by — 
V. von Moller. Mem. Acad. Sci. St.-Petersbourg, ser. 7, vol. xxv. no. 9, 
1878, p. 45 &c. ; and Ann. & Mag. N. H. March 1881. 
