1. Note on two Species of Foraminifera, and on some Objects from the Nicobar Islands of great Ethnological interest

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Mr Archer exhibited two interesting Foraminifers, one being Saccammina Carteri, which forms a large proportion of the Carboniferous limestone at Elfhills, Northumberland; the other, a gigantic species of the Arenaceous group brought from Persia by the late Mr Loftus, and named after him, Loftusia persica. The latter specimen was that to which Mr Archer especially called the attention of the Society, as it was similar to a class of fossils which had previonsly been found in the Upper Greensand formation in England, and believed to be sponges.