Catalogue of the Geological Museum, Cairo

ISBN: 9781330238868 出版年：2016 页码：46 Geological Museum Forgotten Books

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.