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CORRESPONDENCE. 
FORAMINIFERA COLLECTED FKOM THE BLUKFS AT SaNTA BARBARA, 
California During a recent visit to Santa Barbara the writer col- 
lected a number of Foraminifera from the Pleistocene beds in tho 
Bryozoan sand which is beautifully exposed on the beach and also a 
number from the same series several hundred feet higher up in 
the hill south of the city. While the species present in these two 
horizons appear to be almost identical they vary remarkably in the 
number of forms present. For example in the lower beach bluff the 
species most abundant, Polystomella crispa (Linne), is not at all 
common in the upper hill series. Other forms are plentiful above 
but seem to be scarce in the lower bluff. 
The fauna is decidedly north temperate, belonging to the series 
described by Parker and Jones in the North Atlantic and Arctic 
oceans of to-day. There are however a few, belonging to the 
Miliolidae, which appear to belong somewhat farther south. There 
are a large number of Miliolidae belonging to several types of 
which Miliolina seminulum is the most abundant, and of the bilo- 
culine type- Biloculina ringens is all abundant in the hill series and 
rather rare in the bluff beds below. The Lagenae present in both 
horizons are most varied and beautiful and are best separated from 
the matrix by soaking and floating off on water. The list of species 
identified is as follows. Unless otherwise mentioned the species 
belong to both the beds at the top of the hill below the city and 
also in the bluff along the shore near the wharf. 
The formation from which these Foraminifera are obtained has 
been very ably described in a monograph by Ralph Arnold in the 
Mem. Cal, Acad. Sci. vol. iii, 1903. (The Paleontology and Strati- 
graphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, Cal.) 
Near Hill-Crest. Beach-BluH 
Biloculina depressa d' Orbigny. 
" ringens (Lamarck). 
Bolivina punctata d' Orbigny. 
Bulimina subteres Brady. 
Cassidulina crassa d' Orbigny. 
" laevigata d' Orbigny. 
" subglobosa Brady. 
Discorbina globularis (d' Orbigny). 
" turbo (d' Orbigny). 
" vilardeboana (d' Orbigny). 
Gaudryina pupoides d' Orbigny. 
" rugosa d' Orbigny. 
Globigerina bulloides d' Orbigny. 
Lagena globosa (Montagu), 
gracilis Williamson. 
" lagenoides (Williamson). 
" laevis (Walker & Boys). 
" marginata (Walker & Boys). 
" melo d' Orbigny. 
" quadrata Williamson. 
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