| Description | Plate XV containing figures 1-48 showing the forms of various arctic foraminifera, many of which are magnified. Specimens represented include Cassidulina laevigata, Cassidulina crassa, Bulimina pyrula, Bulimina marginata, Bulimina aculeata, Bulimina elegantissima, Virgulina schreibersii, Virgulina squamosa, Textularia agglutinans, Textularia sagittula, Textularia biformis, Bigenerina nodosaria, Verneuilina polystropha, Valvulina conica, Spirillina vivipara, Patellina corrugata, Trochammina squamata, Trochammina gordialis, Cornuspira foliacea, Quinqueloculina oblonga, Quinqueloculina seminulum, Quinqueloculina ferussacii, Quinqueloculina agglutinans, Quinqueloculina subrotunda, Triloculina cryptella, Triloculina tricarinata, Quinqueloculina oblonga, Biloculina ringens, Lituola canariensis, Lituola globigeriniformis, and Lituola scorpiurus. Printed versions of these drawings are found at PT/72/5/9.
Subject: Oceanography
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay'.
Communicated by Prof [Thomas Henry] Huxley. Received by the Royal Society on 26 April 1864. Read 12 May 1864. |