Bottom sampling at forty-one stations on the southeastern Scotian Shelf, North Latitude 43 21'00"-44 25'25", West Longitude 63 39'00"-65 45'30" was carried out in June and July, 1961. Shore and near-shore shallow water stations extending 12 miles seaward with depths not exceeding 150 meters were sampled. Thirty-five concentrated samples of deep sea cores collected by the Lamont Observatories, Palisade, N.Y., and the Atlantic Oceanographic Group, Halifax, Nova Scotia, were also examined. Shallow water foraminifera did not show a direct relationship to depth or substrate. Salinity, either singly or in combination with other factors governs distribution of brackish water foraminifera, Calcareous foraminifera greatly exceeded arenaceous species at most sample stations. Pelagic species increased with depth. Most shallow water forms are indigenous, but the majority of deeper water benthonic forms indicate transportation and/or reworking. Ninety percent of the 120 species are relates to Arctic foraminifera previously described. No new species are erected, but tolerance as to wide variation within a fixed assemblage is allowed.

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