British Museum (Natural History) British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910 Natural History Report Zoology, Vol 6, No 2 Protozoa, Part 2: Foraminifera

Abstract

STUDENTS of natural history in its wider aspects will welcome the appearance of this memoir on the Antarctic Foraminifera of the second Scott Expedition —a notable contribution to the series of reports which have resulted from the Terra Nova Expedition. The authors state that the material collected during the expedition was placed in their hands seven years ago, and that the delay in publication has been due, not only to the difficulties of biological research in wartime, but also to the method of preservation adopted for most of the dredgings containing foraminiferal specimens. 'The collectors appear to have put unwarranted confidence in formalin, “than which no more unsatisfactory medium for … Foraminifera can be imagined.” Messrs. Heron-Allen and Earland have been compelled, therefore, to expend much time and trouble in cleaning the material entrusted to them so as to render it at all suitable for study, and they “can only review the results as a tantalising sketch of the possibilities which would have attended upon an ample supply of properly collected Antarctic material.” Nevertheless, the authors are able to record 650 species and varieties of these fascinating Protozoa, of which 46 are new to science.

British Museum (Natural History). British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report. Zoology, Vol. 6, No. 2. Protozoa, Part 2: Foraminifera.

By Edward Heron-Allen Arthur Earland. Pp. 25–268 + 8 plates. (London: British Museum (Natural History), 1922.) 30s