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mighty river flowing from the south emptied its waters here into the 
sea, before the crustal changes took place that raised the region to its 
present or a greater altitude. The river probably brought down many 
of the remains dug out of these deposits in recent years. 
Vertebrate fossils were first discovered in the Fayfim in 1879 by 
Schweinfurth, but no extensive collecting was done until 1898, whena 
survey of the region was begun by Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell of the Geo- 
logical Survey Department of Egypt. ‘The richness of the deposits in 
MUSEUM CARAVAN ENTERING THE DESERT NEAR THE LISHT PYRAMIDS. 
fossil remains was then first made known. Mr. Beadnell was accom- 
panied on several occasions by Dr. C. W. Andrews of the British Museum, 
and the results of their explorations were the discovery of a rather 
small but intensely interesting and varied vertebrate fauna and the 
amassing of a large amount of material for both the Cairo and the Lon- 
don museums. ‘The combined material of these two museums has 
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recently (1906) been described by Dr. Andrews in an elaborate 
logue” published by the British Museum. 
