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INTEODUOTION. 



From the foregoing summary it will be seen that Africa appears to offer a most 

 promising field for the Vertebrate Palaeontologist, and it is greatly to be desired that 

 travellers, whether geologists or not, should observe and record the position of any 

 beds that contain bones, even if mere fragments only are found. 



In conclusion, I wish to express my sincere thanks to Captain H. G. Lyons, Director- 

 General of the Egyptian Survey, for kindly allowing me to describe the Vertebrate 

 remains preserved in the Geological Museum, Cairo, in conjunction with those in the 

 British Museum, and by so doing to increase very greatly the value of the present 

 volume. I am also greatly indebted to him for valuable advice and assistance in 

 arranging my own collecting-expeditions. Best thanks are also due to Mr. W. E. de 

 Winton, whose generosity made my visits to Egypt in 1903 and 1904 possible. I am 

 indebted to Dr. W. F. Hume, of the Geological Survey of Egypt, for much help when 

 working in the Museum at Cairo, and to Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell, late of the same 

 service, for the privilege of accompanying him on his visit to the Fayum in 1900, 

 and for much help subsequently in working my own collecting-expeditions. Thanks 

 are also due to Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, Avho kindly volunteered to make the Index 

 to this volume ; to the Council of the Zoological Society and the Editors of the 

 Geological Magazine for the loan of illustrations ; and, finally, to Mr. F. O. Barlow 

 for his help in collecting in the early part of 1903, for the subsequent successful 

 preparation of the specimens obtained, and also for the preparation of excellent models 

 of the restored skulls and mandibles of Moeritherium and Palceomastodon. 



CHARLES W. ANDREWS. 



Sketch of Absinoithebivm zitteli, eestoeed. 



