NOTES ON USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL STONES 

 OF ANCIENT EGYPT. By SIR WILLIAM DAWSON, 

 C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S. 



WHEN, in the winter of 1883-4, I had the pleasure of 

 visiting some parts of Egypt and Syria, I had pre- 

 pared myself, by previous study of books and collections, to 

 devote as much of my time as possible to the investigation 

 of certain critical and uncertain questions in the geology of 

 those regions, and especially of the geological facts bearing 

 on the advent and early history of man. Preliminary notes on 

 these points were published in a short series of papers in the 

 Geological Magazine (1884), and a paper on the " Bone Caves 

 of the Lebanon," in the Transactions of this Society (vol. 

 xviii), and the results were more fully given in my work 

 Modern Science in Bible Lands, published in 1888, although 

 the pressing occupations of the intervening three years did 

 not leave sufficient time to work up all my notes and speci- 

 mens.* 



* Eeference may also be made to Professor Hull's Paper, " A sketch 

 of the Geological History of Egypt and the Nile Valley," in vol. xxiv 

 of the Institute's Journal. 



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