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Associates :—Rt. Rev. G. R. Eden, Bishop of Dover ; Rev. W. J. 
Adams, M.A., D.C.L., Dorchester; S. A. Bradshaw, Esq., Middlesex ; 
Captain J. G. Bourke, War Department, United States; Rev. Howard A. 
Crosbie, M.A., Cambridge ; Col. W. Carey, C.B., R.A., Southampton ; 
Rev. W. H. Duke, M.A., Kent; Rev. G. G. Findlay, B.A., Leeds ; Rev. 
G. H. Fowler, M.A., Leeds; Major R. D. Gibney, Devonshire; C. H. 
Goodman, Esq., Surrey; Rev. S. W. Heald, United States ; Lt.-Gen. 
G. C. Hankin, C.B., Guildford; Alpheus Hyatt, Esq., United States ; 
Rev. G. W. King, United States ; Hon. and Rev. A. V. Lyttelton, M.A., 
South Africa; E. Liddon, Esq., M.D., Taunton ; Rev. J. Malet Lambert, 
M.A., LL.D., Hall; Rev. H. E. Maddock, M.A., F.G.S., Hull; 
Surgeon Washington Matthews, War Department, United States ; Rev. 
W. H. H. Marsh, A.M., United States ; Rev. R. C. Oulton, A.M., T.C.D., 
Belfast ; Rev. J. R. Porte, A.M., T.C.D., Surrey ; Rev. R. C. W. Raban, 
Weston-super-Mare ; Rey. F. H. Woods, B.D., Bucks. 
Hon. Corresponpinc Mempers :—Rt. Rev. C. Hamilton, Bishop of 
Niagara; Prof. J. Geikie, D,C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.RS.E., F.G.S., &., 
Edinburgh ; Rev. G. U. Pope, D.D., Oxford; Rev. A. Robertson, 
Venice ; A. Finn, Esq., H.B.M. Consul, Malaga. 
The following Paper was then read by the Author :-- 
SAZTCH OF THE GEOLOGICAL. HISTORY OF 
EGYPT AND THE NILE VALLEY. By Professor 
Epwarkp Huuu, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
Part I.—INTRODUCTORY. 
oa respected Hon. Secretary has suggested to me 
that a sketch of the Geological or Physical History of 
Egypt might be acceptable to the members of the Institu- 
tion, and I have great pleasure in complying with his sug- 
gestion. The paper may be considered as supplementary 
to those I have already contributed on Sinai and Palestine, 
giving the results of the expedition sent out in 1883 by the 
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.* 
Within recent years, much has been done towards the 
elucidation of the physical history of this remarkable country. 
It is scarcely necessary that I should even refer to what 
was done before geology became a branch of exact science ; 
but, amongst recent researches, special mention should be 
made of those of the late Mr. Leonard Horner, of Sir J. 
* Journal Victoria Institute, vol. xxi, p. 11. 
_ t Phil. Trans. RS. (1885), vol. 145, p. 105, and more fully elaborated 
in his work Modern Science in Bible Lands (1888). 
