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Title: The Journal of microscopy and natural science
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Postal Microscopical Society Wesley Naturalists' Society Allen, Alfred
Subjects: Microscopy Microscopes
Publisher: (London : W. P. Collins
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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/^ ^ MlLLfTT, AP AWr DEL (19) ^be jforaminifera of (Balwaij* By F. p. Balkwill and R W. Millett, F.R.M.S. Plates i, 2, 3, 4. IN the summer of 1879, the 25th of the seventh month, businessengagements took F, P. Balkwill to Galway, and having an hour or two to spare, he went to the shore and scraped up about14 lbs. of fine sand from as many different places as possible :around the base of rocks and large stones which there aboundnear low water; from the sides and bottoms of a few small half-tide pools; and from the flats of white sand which stretch up tohigh-water mark, and are so hard as scarcely to record a footprintor show a ripple-mark on their fine surface. He used an ironspoon, which was procured for the purpose, and in scraping care-fully took the surface-sand, especially following the wave-linesnear high-water mark to secure the Foraminifera which had beenfloated and left there by the receding tide, and those lines ofdrainage, where the Foraminifera are similarly deposited by wa

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