2 Prot. 
PROTOZOA. 
Braun, M. Ueber eine neueGattungparasitischer Infusorien. Centralbt. 
Bacteriol. ; J. R. Micr. Soc. 1887, p. 419. 
Brady, H. B. Note on Orbitolites italica, Costa sp. Ann. N. H. xviii, 
pp. 191 & 192. 
Above species from Upper Miocene, near Messina, = Carpenter’s 
Orbitolites tenuissima ; still living in Mediterranean. 
Brandt, K. Die Sphserozoen. Fauna und Flora des Golfes v. Neapel, 
276 pp., 8 pis. (Dec., 1885). Summary: J. R. Micr. Soc. 1887> 
pp. 102-105. 
Morphology, biology, development, and systematic of colonial Radio- 
larians; 4 n. sp. ; 1 n. g., Myxosphcera. 
c 'Brass, A. Bemerkungen zu meinen Angaben fiber die Organisation 
der Infusorien. Marburg : 8vo, 31 pp. 
Brauer, A. Bursaria truncatellci unter Berficksichtigung anderer 
Heterotrichen und der Yorticellinen. Jen. Z. Nat. xix, pp. 489-518. 
Structure of these forms. Contractility of freshwater Vorticellince 
(with few exceptions) is seated in refractive, sharply -defined fibres, dis- 
posed at a blunt angle to cuticle. Details of the ‘retrogressive meta- 
morphoses ’ of encystation in Bursaria. 
^Brayley, F. B. Giant Amoeba. Sci. Goss. 1886, p. 19. 
An abnormal Amceba } }-in. in length by -j^-in. in breadth. 
Burbach, 0. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Foraminiferen der mittleren 
Lias am grossen Seeberge bei Gotha. Die Gattung Frondicularia f 
Defr. Z. Naturw. lix, pp. 30-53. 
Detailed diagnoses of species. 
Ibid. p. 493, 1 pi. Die Milioliden, 4 n. sp. — Opthalmidium orbi- 
culare, Opthalmidium ovale ; Spiroloculina simplex , Spiroloculina 
latiseptata. 
Butschli, 0. Kleine Beitrage zur Kenntniss einiger mariner Rhizo- 
poden. Morph. JB. xi, pp. 78-101, 2 pis. 
a. Structure and distribution of nuclei in Peneroplis pertusus and 
planatus, Orbitolites complanata, Lagena elegans, Textularia, Spirullina 
vivipara, Calcarina spengleri and Amphistegina lessonii. B. Structure of 
the protoplasm, not a network, but honeycombed, c. Parasitic cells in 
Orbitolites , &c., comparablo to ‘yellow cells’ of Radiolariaus, &c. D. Other 
organisms found within these hosts. 
. Bemerkungen zu der Schrift des Herrn Arnold Brass “ Die 
Organisation der thierischen Zelle.” T. c. pp. 229-242. 
. Zur Morphologie der Yorticellinen. T. c. pp. 553-565; J. R. Micr. 
. Soc. vi (4), pp. 632 & 633. 
Morphological study of Vorticellince and allies. Most primitive forms 
are Urceolarina , e. g ., Lionophora , and those derivable from other Ciliata. 
The ciliated organ is the dorsal side, all the rest ventral ; and this 
explains anomalous (apparently longitudinal) division. 
