'Red sand, yellow sand & brown sand of the yellow chalk' [specimens of foraminifera] virginals the dark-eyed junco

the dark-eyed junco

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'Red sand, yellow sand & brown sand of the yellow chalk' [specimens of foraminifera] virginals the dark-eyed juncoCopy of plate 7 from the paper 'Uber den Grunsand und seine Erlauterung des organischen lebens', by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855 (Berlin 1856) pp. 85 176. Supporting text inscription: 'Various species of chalk Foraminifera and various amounts of stoney matter in the chambers ; in their natural condition ' The text contains a full list of foraminifera [single celled marine