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Paper, 'Report on a series of specimens of the deposits of the Nile Delta, obtained by the recent boring operations' by J W [John Wesley] Judd

Reference number: PP/7/6

Date: 1885

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Judd writes: 'Neither of the borings made for the Royal Society, under the superintendence of the Engineers attached to the Army of Occupation in Egypt, appears to have reached the rocky floor of the Nile-Valley, nor do the samples examined show any indication of an approach to such floor. What were at first supposed to be pebbles in one of the samples from Tantah [Tanta], prove on examination to be calcareous concretions (“race” or “kunkur”).'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Geology

Received 12 November 1885. Read 19 November 1885.

A version of this paper was published in volume 39 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Report on a series of specimens of the deposits of the Nile Delta, obtained by the recent boring operations'.

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PP/7/6
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1885
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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34 pages
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John Wesley Judd, Paper, 'Report on a series of specimens of the deposits of the Nile Delta, obtained by the recent boring operations' by J W [John Wesley] Judd, 1885, PP/7/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_7_6/paper-report-on-a-series-of-specimens-of-the-deposits-of-the-nile-delta-obtained-by-the-recent-boring-operations-by-j-w-john-wesley-judd, accessed on 11 July 2025

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