Note 46 — PART III.
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It must be mentioned here, however, that more recently Mayer-Eymar speaks (Nouvelles Recherches sur le Ligurien et le Tongrien d’Égypte, Bull. Inst. Égypt., April, 1894, p. 216) of the Mokattam beds above Qasr el Sagha, some 100 metres higher in the series, as Parisian, but does not explain these two conflicting determinations. It seems quite certain, however, that these island beds are of Parisian age, and not Bartonian as stated by him.