The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17971408718)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumj08amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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10 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL mighty river flowing from the south emptied its waters here into the sea, before the crustal changes took place that raised the region to its present or a greater aUitude. The river probably brought down many of the remains dug out of these deposits in recent years. Vertebrate fossils were first discovered in the Fay fun in 1S79 by Schweinfurth, but no extensive collecting was done until 1898, when a survey of the region was begun by Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell of the Geo- logical Survey Department of Egypt. The richness of the deposits in
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MUSEUM CARAVAN ENTERING THE DESERT NEAR THE LISHT PYRAMIDS. fossil remains was then first made known. Mr. Beadnell was accom- panied on several occasions by Dr. C. W. Andrews of the British ^Museum, and the results of their explorations were the discovery of a rather small but intensely interesting and varied vertebrate fauna and the amassing of a large amount of material for both the Cairo and the Lon- don museums. The combined material of these two museums has recently (190G) been described by Dr. Andrews in an elal^orate "cata- logue" published l)y the British )\Iuseum.