52 REPORT—1849. 
On some New Species of Testacea from the Hampshire Tertiary Beds. 
By E. Cuarreswortn, F.G.S, 
Mr. Charlesworth stated that the British Natural History Society had employed 
collectors to obtain fossils from the eocene strata of Hampshire, and that amongst the 
20,000 specimens already obtained were seven new to this country :—1. A Cytherea 
with the external form of Jsocardia. 2. A Purpura? with a single prominent plait 
on the columella. 3. A Cancellaria. 4. A shell allied to Cerithium. 5. Murex 
tripteroides (Desh.). 6. Fusus excisus (Lam.). 7. A variety of Murex defossus (Sow.). 
Mr. Charlesworth remarked on the importance of investigating particular deposits, 
especially where there was any danger of good localities being destroyed, as in the 
case of the Bridlington crag. 

On the Geography and Geology of the Peninsula of Mount Sinai and the ad- 
jacent Countries. By Joun Hoee, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., Hon. Sec. of the 
Royal Geograph. Soe. &c. 
In communicating a brief account of the geography and geology of the peninsula 
of Mount Sinai, and of the countries immediately adjoining to it, the author in the 
first place took a hasty survey of the chief’ natural features of the peninsula, beginning 
at Suez, and following the Sinaic coast of the Gulf of Suez as far as its south point at 
Ras Mohammed, and thence up the Sinaic coast of the Gulf of Akaba to its north 
extremity. 4 
Secondly. From the Kalah el Akaba down the Arabian shores of that gulf, he de- 
scribed that region, the little isles of ‘Tiran, Senafer, and others which lie to the S. of 
Ras Furtak, and then the districts near Ain Uneh and Moweilih, on that coast of 
Arabia. 
Thirdly. Passing from Moweilih up the Gulf of Akaba, he gave some views of it, 
of the Wadi el Araba, and of the neighbouring mountains, as far north as the ruins 
of Petra. 
Fourthly. On the rocks of Petra the author offered a few remarks, also on Gebel 
Harun, and the mountains of the Nabathzan chain, those to the N.W. of Wadi el 
Jerafah, the great desert of El Tyh, the range El Egmeh, the Sinaic group, and Gebel 
el Tyh and G. Thughar. 
Fifthly. Starting again from Suez, he shortly noticed that east region of Egypt 
which is contiguous to the Gulf of Suez, nearly as far south as the supposed site of 
Myos Hormus, 
And, sixthly. In conclusion, he observed upon the general features, the heights of 
the mountains, the geological formations, the minerals and ores of the peninsula of 
Mount Sinai. 
The plain map that accompanied this paper was carefully reduced from a much larger 
one (which was also exhibited and coloured geologically), drawn and compiled by the 
author from the maps of Professors Lepsius, Russegger and Robinson (the last ex- 
ecuted by Kieppert at Berlin), and from the charts of the survey of the Red Sea, by 
Messrs. Moresby and Wellsted, under the authority of the East India government. 
For the purpose of keeping the map as clear as possible, and not crowded with names, 
those of the chief places are alone inserted. The Arabic, the classical and scriptural 
appellations are added. It was recently engraven by Mr. W. Hughes for the Royal 
Society of Literature, in order to illustrate the author’s previous memoiron Mount Sinai, 
now publishing in the forthcoming part of their Transactions *. 
Mr. J. Hogg also exhibited a copy of the same, which he coloured geologically, 
principally after Russegger’s maps of Egypt and the Sinaic peninsula, very lately 
executed at Vienna; but the latter he corrected in some places according to the de- 
scriptions of Burckhardt and other travellers who had visited them in person. 
An imaginary section, likewise geologically tinted, was described ; it comprehended 
the peninsula from Gebel Jaraf on the north to Ras Mohammed on the south. This 
the author himself enlarged, eight times, from a portion of a more extensive section, 
neatly engraved with the altitudes derived from Russegger’s work, by Herr Augustus 
Petermann. 
* See Second Series, vol. iii. part 2. pp. 183, 236. 

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