312 
THE MEDITERRANEAN N YT- 'RAT/ - , 
means of their pseudopodia, an.! may ’ . readily 
along the Sicilian 
con 
La Teel 
a t 1 
r Atieaste!- 
observe! with a pocket-lens. They wi 1 of ea live 
lo. Neither i- it ; 
ess 
endow 
extramarine 
in this manner for many week.-; 1 kept in a cool 
fauna and flora, -a 
i as.su r 
ip if ^ j 
ieig 
fhbourhooi 
place. Mr. J.D. Siddall in his report on the 
a rich and quite s 
ire 
sees- 
Foraininifera of the Liverpool Marine Bio!<»gi"id 
ses a splendid e!i 
ma 
eii 
coupl 
ed 
with every 
Committee’s District, writes as follows concerning 
modem comfort, 
re 
aiders 
prefe 
rab 
le to any 
the collection of living specimens; “I have Ana! - 
other centre fortl 
tost 
who \v 
is! 
1 tO bt U 
dy 
•he natural 
ed alive, ancl kept in bottles, and rope ito by ex;\- 
history of Etna. 
mined specimens of mo si of the r es For . i- 
Much greater. 1 
tl 
ie imp. 
ince of this 
nifera, enumerated in the following list,' (namely. 
city for the valca 
Qok 
r rninera 
log 
ist. In fact 
List of the Foraininifera of the L.M.B.C.- Dish let ); 
from Acireale th 
e 1 1 1 . to 
the ioc 
ilil 
ies of the 
“but these have invariably been got from the mud 
mo>t CciCDi a< u‘.i e 
fei : 
s easy 
as 
from Cata- 
at the bottom of shore pools of greater or less 
nia, whilst trips 
to 
the Va 
del B 
JVC 
are much 
depth. Under the influence of the sunlight, the 
easier, as well as 
uO t 
tie site? 
0 
f the i 
resting and 
Diatoms and other algae which grow in the mud at 
characteristic erui 
)tio 
, 1835, 
an 
d 1879. The 
the bottom of such pools, often rise to the surf see 
neighbourhood of 
Ac 
ireale, 
W 
:*.i, * 1 , 
ilil Tile 
Lis, bit - .its 
in patches. These act as rafts and carry the lllii- 
and numerous an 
1 Vc 
iried Is 
tva 
s are tlu 
most inte- 
zopoda up with them. Once up, the out-spread 
resting points for 
study 
INI lid. 
pseudopodia enable even the largest and hem is m 
In these notes 
if n 
line I 
mose t 
o r 
' ss 
forms got in our district toil pe t'h 
in review the hat 
imporf 
t C.f tl 
ies 
sits, 
seen a shore-pool at Holywell covered quite i hi- k; v 
which makes Ac 
ireale a ve 
ry 
rich, 
lost virgin 
with Polystomella striato-punctata (the .•ornmonest 
and unexplored fi 
eld 
for sti 
d\ 
form in the Dee), its reddish-colored sareode ivn- 
The town stem 
is 
ibout 
~t 
mete 
rs 
above sea- 
dering it easy to distinguish on the surface of the 
level and is situ 
on a 
S 
eep ei 
nin 
ence called 
water.” Further on he says, “They (Foraininifera) 
Tiinpa which is c 
oim 
rosed 
of 
mime 
roil 
s sheets of 
may always be got by carefully scraping the sur- 
lava and beds of t 
u if. 
A pla 
n 
extend 
s r 
- 
face of the velvety browirsh mud at the bottom of 
in part coy ere 
the cur 
rent o 
f 
329 which 
pools left by the tide, or -by skimming the top of 
reached the sea. 
Aloi 
lg the 
COc 
ist cliff 
ere 
nt mineral- 
the water, if this mud be found to have risen 
water springs gus 
l Oil 
it, man 
y 
A whit 
h L 
av e not yet 
under the influence of sun-light. The oozy mud 
been analysed. At 
Puzzillois 
a 
soring 
err mi no us 
may be got rid of by washing through a muslin. 
water which is much 
used i 
n . 
Vcireal 
here is also 
net, and the residuum put into small bottles till.-- ! 
a magnesian one, 
and 
anoth 
er 
at Staj 
5ZO 
also proba- 
with sea-water.” It will bs observed that Mr. 
bly ina niesian, w 
hih 
;t a s<’ 
ie one 
gl 
is’ies forth 
Siddall is here speaking of the shores of the Dee 
from the volcanic 
roe 
ks at £ 
ha 
Teela 
SO m. from 
Estuary which are more or less muddy. 1 have 
the sea shore. 
not succeeded in obtaining living Foraminifera by 
Beneath the la 
VA 
strean 
i of San 
a 1 
Aela a cu- 
this method from the tide-pools of a clean sandy 
rious and rare obj 
ect 
was if 
mi 
id whi 
ell 
is now pre- 
shore. 
served in mv own 
eol 1 
ection. 
It 
con sis 
1 s 
.f a piece of 
(to be continual .) 
wood, possibly th 
e s 
tern of 
a 
vine, 
which having 
been enveloped in 
th 
' flowing 
lava w 
as 
carbonized 
Geological notes of Acireale 
and cracked in su 
;h a 
way 
V 
t the 
m 
tgma from 
BY. 
its great anility 
pe 
letra te 
d 
the ci 
acl 
cs, making 
Gaetano Platan ia. 
a detailed cast of 
the 
wood 
W 
Inch 1 
US 
now com- 
— 
pletely disappear. 
d. 
1) 
Acireale is certainly one of the best head-quarters 
— — 
— 
— 
— 
for naturalists, especially for those who wish tovi- 
(1 ) Xirjnor G'lt i 
it 
hied 
i / 
/ > iilS 
<• d in the 
sit Etna. It is celebrated for the richness and varic- 
bum of iu,mi 'hit 
9 Ac 
, „ /. 
;)'•!, II 
• < 
t A nr 
ty of forms presented by the marine fauna and than 
non. he lot 
v . 1 1 
1! t 
c . and tin >/ 
of its shores, and particularly of those stretching 
arc now jm .-o reed 
hi ^ 
it/ coil 
ction. 
