50 Prof. J. W. Gregory — Fossil Corals from Egypt, etc. 



The existence of ilfasfodon in South Africa, hitherto unknown, 

 is of great importance for geology and biology. According to the 

 latest memoir on the subject/ the younger Tertiary beds of Egypt, 



Portion of unworn tooth of a Mastodon (subdivision Bmiolophodon) from the 

 Pleistocene, Waldeck Plant, higher terrace of gravels (60 to 80 feet) above 

 the Vaal Eiver, near Kimberley, South Africa. 



Tunis, and Algeria have afforded the only African Mastodons. 

 Now we are able to record this extinct Proboscidian from the 

 Pleistocene of the far south of the Continent. 



II. — On a Collection of Fossil Corals from Eastern Egypt, 

 Abu Eoash, and Sinai. 



By J. W. Gregoky, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.G.S., 



Professor of Geology, Glasgow University. 



(PLATES YI AND VII.2) 



THE corals described in this report were collected by members 

 of the Egyptian Geological Survey, and were sent to London 

 in September, 1899. I then examined most of the specimens, and 

 submitted a preliminary report to the effect that they belong to 

 three horizons : — 



1 Deperet, " Decouverte du 3Iastodon angnstidcns dans I'etage cartenuien de 

 Kabylie " : Bull. Soc. Geol. France, vol. xxv (1897), pp. 518-521 and plate. 



2 Plate VII Avill appear with the second part of paper in the March Number. 



