Abstract
SOON after the occupation of Egypt by a British military force in 1882, the late Prof. Huxley, then president of the Royal Society, directed attention to the valuable opportunity that was afforded for the extension of our geological knowledge in that interesting country. He instanced the valuable series of scientific memoirs that, had been prepared by French savants during the occupation of the country at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as an example worthy to be followed. Following his advice, the Royal Society appointed a “Delta Committee” to arrange for explorations, which it seemed desirable to undertake, and made various grants from its funds to defray expenses. The War Department of the Government, on being applied to by the Royal Society, agreed to lend the service of some of the engineer-officers, then in the country, to supervise the work.
Geological Map of Egypt.
Scale 1: 1,000,000 (six sheets) and reduction of the same to the scale 1: 2,000,000. (Cairo: Survey Department, 1910.)
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J., J. Geological Map of Egypt . Nature 86, 73 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086073a0
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