618 ME. K. B. NEWTON ON [Nov. I9II, 



Two years later. Prof. Suess, 1 on the strength of Zittel's state- 

 ment, regarded the Miocene l Grobkalk * of Western Egypt as 

 belonging to the second Mediterranean Stage, and hence as of 

 Vindobonian or Helvetian-Tortonian age. 



In 1884 Dr. Schweinfurth 2 collected fossils at Mersa Tobruk 

 (Marmarica), which he regarded as of Miocene age, including 

 Scutella. Subsequently M. G. Holland 3 briefly referred to the 

 Miocene (' Molasse Marine') rocks in the neighbourhood of the 

 Siwa Oasis of Egypt and their extension to the plateau of 

 Cyrenaica. Such deposits, he stated, were, according to Fuchs, 

 representative of an age between the first and second Mediter- 

 ranean Stage, or the ' Sables de Grund ' of the Vienna Basin 

 ( — Lower Helvetian or Uppermost Burdigalian). 



Some years later, Schweinfurth's fossils from Mersa Tobruk, 

 and others obtained in 1890 from Mersa Badia, were systematically 

 examined by Dr. M. Blanckenhorn, and included as part of the 

 Miocene fauna in his memoir, ' Neues zur Geologie & Palaontologie 

 ^Egyptens : III — Das Miocan.' i 



Dr. G. Hildebrand, in his work ' Gyrenai'ka als Gebiet kiinf tiger 

 Besiedelung ' (Bonn, 1904) pp. 84-86, recognized Miocene rocks 

 only in that country, and doubted the presence of Nummulitic 

 deposits. Describing some rocks from Tripoli, Prof. Stanislas 

 Meunier 5 mentioned that he bad seen none from that country 

 older than Lutetian : specimens supposedly of Cardium were found 

 with analogies to those of the Calcaire Grossier of the Paris Basin, 

 but another Cardium occurring in the Tertiary rocks of Cyrenaica 

 was more recent than those from Tripoli. 



Writing on the geology of Tripoli, Dr. L. Pervinquiere G noted 

 the occurrence of Cretaceous fossils in that country, as previously 

 determined by Beyrich ~ • and a year later Dr. Lothar Krumbeck 

 published figures and descriptions of Cretaceous fossils from the 

 same country. 3 A brief general notice of the geology of Cyrenaica 

 is given by Prof. J. W. Gregory ° in an official account of his 

 journey to that province, in which he rejects the inferences founded 

 on statements by Delia Cella concerning the discovery of ammonites 

 in 1817, which suggested the presence of M.esozoic rocks in that 

 area of Northern Africa. 



1 ' Das Antlitz derErde' vol. i (1885) p. 470. 



2 Bull. Inst. Egyptien, ser. 2, ]\ T o. 4 (1884) p. 82. 



3 ' Geologie du Sahara Algerien, etc. — Chemin de Fer Transsaharien ' 

 French Government Report [Paris] 1890, p. 86. 



4 Zeitschr. Deutsch. Geol. Gesellsch. vol. liii (1901) pp. 104 & 105. 



5 Bull. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 4. vol. v ( 1905) p. 69. 



6 Ibid. pp. 527-29. 



7 Monatsb. Verbandl. Ges. Erdkund. Berlin, vol. ix (1852) pp. 156-62. 



8 Palaeontographica, vol. liii (1906) pp. 51-135, pis. vii-ix. 



9 ' Report on Work of Commission, Jewish Territorial Organization ' 1909, 

 p. 5. 



