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RefNo	CMB/3/4/1
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the Delta Committee
Date	16 February 1884
Description	Pressent at the meeting; the President in the chair; Professor Bonney; Professor Judd; Professor Prestwich 1. Minute of Council of 7 February 1884 appointing the Committee was read 2. Letter of apology for absence from Mr Geikie rread 3. The President read the correspondence which had passed between the Council of the Royal society and the War Office relative to the Borings in the Delta of teh Nile ; and a letter to him from Principal Dawson of Montreal dated from Cairo, 14 January 1884 4. after discussion it was resolved; 4.1 That it is desirable that the borings shall be continued in the place already adopted, but with the best tools and labour that can be procured, and that the asttention of the officers conducting the operation be specially directed to the importance of carrying each boring down until the solid rock is reached, even if the depth of the boring requisite should amount to several hundred feet 4.2 That inquiry be made for the specimens referred to in Colonel Maitlands letter of 27 November 1883 which have not yet reached the Royal Society, as it is of great importance that complete series of the specimens (and that through the clay in extra quantity) should be carefully examined. 4.3 A letter to the War Office be drafted embodying the sense of these resolutions Letter as in 4.3 above copied out in full as part of the minutes
Extent	3p
Format	Manuscript
AccessStatus	Open

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