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The corals described in this report were collected by members of the Egyptian Geological Survey, and were sent to London in September, 1899. I then examined most of the specimens, and submitted a preliminary report to the effect that they belong to three horizons:—
page 50 note 2 Plate VII will appear with the second part of paper in the March Number.
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