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ix'latioins with yourself. With tlic best wishes for the coming year and 
the kindest regards. 
Faithfully yours, 
Dk. v. Zittel. 
So from tlie standpoint of a collector who has worked so many 
years in the barren fossil fields of America in the interests of pale- 
ontology, I can say the truest lover of the ancient life of the earth I 
ever knew has gone to his rest. God ever keep his memory green 
wherever his works on paleontology shall go. charles h. Sternberg. 
Pleistocene Foraminifera from Panama. The several species 
of Foraminifera here listed were obtained from material dredged in 
digging the Panama canal. It was contained in a large specimen of 
gastropod shell — Aquillus (Septa) tritonis Linn, var. nobilis conrad. 
The shell was dredged up near Mindi, five kilometers from the Atlantic 
coast. The material consisted largely of the "brownish dirty colored 
sand'" described by Hill (Geology of the Isthmus of Panama : Bull. 
Mu's. Comp. Zool., vol. 28, no. 5, p. 174, i8g8). The material there 
is described as Pleistocene and it certainly must be late Pleistocene 
at that, for the colors on the shell in which the material was found 
were very well preserved. The species of Foraminifera found are all 
living ones, almost without exception now in the gulf of Mexico. 
The nearest localities mentioned by Flint (Report of the U. S. National 
Museum for 1897, pp. 249 et seq.) are given for comparisons. The 
species determined are as follows : 
I. — Haplohliragvii'.tm calcarcunif Brady. 
But one specimen found and that poorly preserved. Noted by 
Flint from the straits of Yucatan. 
2. — Buliiiiina inilata Seguenza. 
The typical form figured by Brady and by Flint. Noted b}' Flint 
from the gulf of Mexico. 
3. — Boiivina plicata. D'Orb. 
The specimens tend somewhat toward B. aciiarciisis Costa. The 
latter species is found in the gulf of Mexico. Frequent. 
4 — Milioluia a)igularis Flint. 
This is evidently the species described by Flint from the straits 
of Yucatan. Frequent. 
5. — Miliuiiiia sciiiirinliDii Linn. 
Very common. Also found living in the gulf of Mexico. 
6. — Miliolina zrimsta Karrer. 
The specimens have the keels and are in every way like this 
species although it is given by Brady as a deep water form. How- 
ever Flint records it from the west coast of Patagonia and gulf of 
Tokyo in 194 and g fathoms respectively. 
7. — Miliolina oblonga D'Orb. 
Several specimens evidently this species. Living forms reported 
from the northeastern coast of So. America. 
