Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The collection of fossils belonging to the Geological Survey of Egypt which has been sent to England for description by Capt. H. G. Lyons, E.E., contains a series of forty specimens of corals, including representatives of nine genera and eleven species.
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