FORAMINIFERA COLLECTED NEAR THE HAWAIIAN 
ISLANDS BY THE STEAMER ALBATROSS IN 1902. 
By Rurus Martuer Bace, Jr., 
Of the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. 
While the examination of this material was in progress, after about 
100 species of Foraminifera had been identified and described, almost 
the entire collection was destroyed by fire and the original scale of 
the report thus had to be abandoned. It is possible to give only a 
summary of the results derived from a study of the material saved 
from the fire, which consists of 19 bottles containing chiefly typical 
Globigerina and Pulvinulina ooze. The species, over 200 in number, 
represent 54 genera and are mostly characteristic of warm waters in 
tropical oceans. 
The following method was used in the examination of the ma- 
terial: On a fine-grained cloth of double thickness in a long porce- 
lain tray were poured the contents of each vial. Additional alcohol 
was used to thoroughly wash this ooze, and the Foraminifera were 
spread out on the cloth, which was then lifted out and dried over a 
lamp. ‘The shells were easily shaken from the dried cloth, not dried - 
together in lumps, and a soft brush removed. from the cloth the very 
finest portion of the ooze that might be left after shaking. The 
forms thus selected were clean and white and could be spread out on 
black cardboard for microscopic examination. The remainder of the 
alcoholic solution, with the finest mud and ooze, was allowed to settle 
in the tray, and, with the label, was returned to the bottle from which 
it had been taken. With this method any radiolaria or diatoms that 
may have been present were left in the solution and can be further 
studied. ‘The mechanical sediment likewise was saved, and the frag- 
ments of any other organisms that might be present. It was found 
best to examine most of the material in reflected light, and the tests 
were most readily studied upon a black background, for which pur- 
pose I used thick glossy cardboard which had been glued to a glass 
slide. 
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