ORDINARY MEETING. 



Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and continued. 

 The following paper was read : — 



THE CLIMATE OF EGYPT IN GEOLOGICAL, 

 PREHISTOIilC, AND ANCIENT HISTORIC 

 TIMES. By Dr. Grant Bey.* 



(Eead May 18th, 1896.) 



A. On the Climate of Egypt in Geological Time. 



IN treating of the climate of Egypt in Geological Time, 

 very natm-ally you will expect me to take you back 

 along the thread or scroll of geological history to that 

 period when the nebulous massf of this globe (thrown off 

 during the formation of the Solar System) took on somewhat 

 of a definite shape and had already laid the foundation of its 

 present crust. 



It would seem that the Primitive Waters of ancient 

 mythology and tradition, during the contraction of this 

 shapeless nebulous mass, formed a universal sea of water 

 with a universal sea of steamy vaporous atmosphere above 

 it, which entirely obscured the sun, although it was much 

 larger and nearer then than now. At this epoch, darkness 



* Being the revised substance of MS. notes, read at the Pan-Amer. 

 Med. Cong., Washington, 6 Sept. 1893. 



t The fact that some of the principal constituents of this earth are 

 non-existent in the Sun, should not militate against the nebular formation 

 of the Solar System, seeing that Nebulce are not homogeneous but hetero- 

 geneous in character, and have even many different vortices of varying 

 composition within them. 



