[82]Beadnell, Découvertes Géologiques Récentes dans la Vallée du Nil et le Désert Libyen, Compte rendu. VIIIe Congr. Géol. Internat. 1900, Paris, 1901, p. ; also Ball and Beadnell, Baharia Oasis: Its Topography and Geology; Survey Depart. P.W.M. report. Cairo. 1903, pp. 61-62.
[83]Correlations between Tertiary Mammal Horizons of Europe and America, Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. XIII, No. 1, July 21, 1900, pp. 1-72.
[84]Compare Afrika als Entstehungszentrum für Säugetiere, Stromer, Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. Geolog. Gesellsch. Jahr 1903. Also Betrachtungen über die Geologische geschichte Aethiopiens, do. do., 1901.
[85]The locality has been briefly examined by Dr. Blanckenhorn and more recently by Mr. T. Barron, who was accompanied by Dr. Andrews; the writer spent a few days collecting in the neighbourhood in April, 1903.
[86]Approximately 10 metres above sea-level.
[87]It is worth recording here that a single worn specimen of Chicoreus anguliferus, Lam., was found on the desert surface in the neighbourhood of the bone-pits and at about the level of the highest gravel terrace. This determination was made by Bullen Newton, who informs me the species occurs in the marine Pleistocene beach deposits of the Red Sea.
[88]Beadnell, Découvertes Géologiques Récentes dans la Vallée du Nil et le Désert Libyen, VIIIe Congrès Géol. Intern. 1900. Paris 1901, pp. 25-27.
[89]Doubt has recently been thrown by American writers on the possibility of large or thick deposits of gypsum being formed by precipitation. See R. S. Sherwin. Notes on the theories of origin of gypsum deposits, Kansas Acad. Sci. Trans. Vol. 18. 1903, pp. 85-88.
[90]Egyptian Irrigation (1899), p. 32.
[91]The southern limits of the site (broken line) are taken from the maps of Brown and Willcocks.