January, 1845.] 195 



In reference to the preceding facts, it may perhaps be interesting 

 to the members of your Society to examine some specimens of tho 

 different layers of the earth of the Nile, and I have accordingly 

 sent, in a tin case, the following examples : 



1. Earth of the Nile, taken from the summit of hillocks at 

 thirty feet above the present level of the river, upon its eastern 

 bank, half an hour (about a mile) above Korosco, [nearly sixty 

 miles above Assouan.] 



2. Some of the present soil of the valley of Korosco, taken at 

 a height of three feet above the Nile. 



3. Specimen of the earth newly deposited at Korosco, the 18th 

 of August, 1844. 



4. A little sand taken from the thermal spring at Okme, on 

 the southern frontier of the Province of Butir-el-Hagar, which is 

 the only spring of the kind, to my knowledge, in all the valley of 

 the Nile. It is on the western bank of the river, and issues 

 from the earth at a temperature of 44° Reaum." (130° Fahr.) 



The following extract from another letter from Dr.Lepsius, 

 of the same date, addressed to Mr. Gliddon, was also read by 

 the Chairman. 



" We shall leave this (the Island of Phils) in a few days, and 

 hope to arrive at Thebes in a month. We shall remain there 

 during the winter, and shall return during the spring through Syria, 

 Asia Minor, Constantinople and Greece, to our fatherland, where 

 we shall arrive in the course of the next summer." 



Meeting for Business, January 28, 1845. 

 Vice President Wetherill in the Chair. 



After the Monthly Report of the Corresponding Secretary 

 had been read, and some other business transacted, the So- 

 ciety proceeded to elect the different Standing Committees 

 for 1845. The Tellers reported the following result : 



