The “Challenger” Reports

Abstract

ANOTHER volume forming Part XXII. of the Zoological Series of Reports on the Scientific Results of the Challenger Expedition has just been published, containing an account of the Foraminifera by H. B. Brady, F.R.S. It will be universally acknowledged that the task of preparing this Report could not have been intrusted to abler hands. The representatives of this interesting group of animals, writes Mr. Murray in an editorial note, are universally distributed over the floor of the ocean and in its surface and sub-surface waters, and the presence or absence of certain surface forms in the deposits from different depths and localities is intimately connected with some of the most remarkable and intricate problems of general Oceanography. It was therefore of the first importance that one very familiar with the group of the Foraminifera should have been chosen to undertake so vast an amount of labour as was requisite to investigate the enormous quantity of material that was collected. The Report itself is the best evidence of the great success which has attended Mr. Brady's investigations; it consists of a volume of text of over 800 pages, and is accompanied by a volume of 115 very exquisitely executed plates.

Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" during the Years 1873–76 under the Command of Capt. George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S., and Capt. Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N.

Prepared under the Superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson., &c, and now of John Murray, F.R.S.E., one of the Naturalists of the Expedition. Zoology—Vol. IX. Text and Plates. Two Vols. (Published by Order of Her Majesty's Government, 1884.)