Geological Museum Catalogue of the Geological Museum, Cairo

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The West Room, Ground Floor, is at present used as a storage and work-room, a Curator's Room and Laboratory completing the Museum. Room 1 is mainly devoted to the building stones, records of underground structure obtained in boring operations, clays used in pottery, salts of economic value and rocks associated with minerals of value. Room 2 contains a large collection of the Invertebrate fossils ar ranged according to relative age. Room 3 should be specially visited, as it contains unique Verte brate remains from the Fayum.