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COS, S,ESI^OIsrX5 IE InTGE. 



THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF EGYPT. 



Sir,— In No. 427 of the Geol. Mag., January, 1900, p. 4G, 

 Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell, in a letter entitled "The Geological Surve}'- 

 of Egypt," refers to an abstract report (in Zeitsclirift fur praldisclie 

 Geologie, Berlin, November, 1899) of my lecture, " Neues zur 

 Geologie und Paliiontologie Aegyptens " (Allgemeine Versammlung* 

 d. Deutsch. geol. Ges., 1899, in Miinchen). 



From this abstract report he concludes that I claim to have myself 

 " discovered the existence of rocks of Cenomanian age in Baharia 

 Oasis," which, in fact, I never visited. I never did claim such 

 a thing in any way, as shown by the manuscript of my lecture, 

 not yet printed, and I cannot possibl}'^ be made responsible for an 

 abstract report, which, as ever3'one sees from its title and its 

 contents, is not written by me but by Mr. Dieseldorff, the reporter 

 of the Zeitsclirift fur fraldiscfie Geologie. In this paper the names 

 of the geologists mentioned in my lecture have been left out in 

 order to shorten it, and there are other mistakes besides which I am 

 sorry I could not correct, because a pi'oof was not sent to me for 

 correction. The authentic words of my lecture will be published soon. 



I desire to mention the following facts : — Although I did not my- 

 self find the fossils in the Cretaceous formation of the Baharia Oasis, 

 yet I was the first to examine and recognize them as Cenomanian, 

 and thus to prove the Cenomanian age of Baharia. Mr. Beadnell 

 himself, who did not at all know the meaning of his fine fossils,- 

 was surprised by my discovery. This he will certainly not den}^ 



But as Mr. Beadnell justlj^ sets a great value upon being named 

 as discoverer of the fossils, I must claim the same right for myself 

 with respect to the publication of notes in this Magazine on the 

 Palteontology of Egypt. In the January number there is an essay, 

 " On a New Species of Chelonian (Podocnemis cegyptiaca) from 

 the Lower Miocene of Egypt," by C. W. Andrews, who describes- 

 some fossils collected by me at Moghara without anywhere 

 mentioning ray name. 



I wish to act in the interests of my former colleagues in Egypt 

 also by asking the palceontologists of the British Museum to 

 mention in each instance the name of the discoverers of the fossils 

 referred to. ]\I. Blanckenhokn. 



Berlin. 



[TJnavoidahhj delayed in imhlication. — Edit. Geol. Mag.] 



