III. On some Foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis Strait and Baffin Bay

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1864
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Bay; Norway; Barrett; Sutherland; Dayman; Baffin; Davis Strait; Foraminifera*; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1863.0055; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1863.0055

Having received specimens of sea-bottom, by favour of friends, from Baffin Bay (soundings taken in one of Sir E. Parry’s expeditions), from the Hunde Islands in Davis Strait (dredgings by Dr. P. C. Sutherland), from the coast of Norway (dredgings by Messrs. M‘Andrew and Barrett), and from the whole width of the North Atlantic (soundings by Commander Dayman), the authors have been enabled to form a tolerably correct esti­mate of the range and respective abundance of several species of Foraminifera in the Northern seas; and the more perfectly by taking Professor Williamson’s and Mr. H. B. Brady’s researches in British Foraminifera as supplying the means of estimating the Foraminiferal fauna of the shallower sea-zones at the eastern end of the great “Celtic Province,” and the less perfect researches of Professor Bailey on the North American coast, for the opposite, or “Virginian” end,—thus presenting for the first time the whole of a Foraminiferal fauna as a natural-history group, with its internal and external relationships.