THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTOEY. [FIFTH SERIES.] No. 48. DECEMBER 1881. ^ XL. — On some Arctic Foraminifera from Soundings ohtained on the Austro-Hungarian North-Polar Expedition of 1S72-1874. By Henry B. Beady, F.R.S.* [Plate XXI.] TowAEDS the end of last December I received from my friend Dr. F. Karrer, of Vienna, a parcel of soundings from Franz-Josef Land and the Novaya-Zemlya sea, obtained during the Austro-Hungarian North-Polar Expedition, with the intima-tion that he had been authorized by the Imperial Academy of Sciences to place them in my hands for investigation, and the suggestion that I should draw up a report upon the ]\iicro-zoa contained in them for presentation to the Academy. My first duty under these circumstances is to express my thanks to the Academy for the courtesy which has afforded me the opportunity of reverting to a subject to which I have before given some attention, namely the distribution of minute forms of animal life in the seas of high latitudes. Before enlarging upon the results of the examination of the * Report presented to tlie Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna — " Ueber einige arktische Tiefsee-Foraminiferen, gesammelt wahrend der osterreichisch-ungarischen Nordpol-Expedition in den Jahren 1872-1874," Denkschriften d. math.-uaturw. 01. d. k, Akad. d. Wissenscb. vol. xliii. p. 91, map and plate. Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 5. Vol^ viii. 28
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