C.S. Myers to K. Pearson, 22nd Nov. 1901.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Charles Samuel MyersSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 22 Nov 1901
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Sent fromCharles Samuel Myers
22 Nov 1901
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[from Cairo:]
‘Dear Professor Pearson,
In the monograph by Dr Lee on the capacity of skulls, which you kindly sent me, she refers to unpublished measurements by a Miss Fawcett on the Naqada crania. If you are concerned in the publication of the latter work, may I ask you to send me here a copy of the paper. I scarcely like to trouble you, & would not, - were I not very anxious to have by me all available material on Egyptian craniometry. Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy in the Medical School at Cairo, is also interesting himself in the matter. I go down three times weekly to his dissecting room & make measurements (including such as you & Prof. Windle require) on unclaimed bodies of hospital patients. By measuring these the same lengths as I have chosen to take on the living, & by repeating the measurements on the dried skeletons prepared from these corpses, I hope to obtain 80[?] results which will enable me to compare with the ancient Egyptian bones, the proportion of links[?] among the present population. I measure about twenty soldiers a day and have already done about 200 subjects. My dissecting-room work is especially promising as at present the Professor is engaged in macerating a number of bodies in order to prepare skeletons therefrom.
I hope you will not mind my troubling you to send me a copy of Miss Fawcett’s paper if you are arranging for its publication in the near future. This address will find me for the next three or four months.
Yours very truly,
Charles S. Myers.’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
22 Nov 1901
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[from Cairo:]
‘Dear Professor Pearson,
In the monograph by Dr Lee on the capacity of skulls, which you kindly sent me, she refers to unpublished measurements by a Miss Fawcett on the Naqada crania. If you are concerned in the publication of the latter work, may I ask you to send me here a copy of the paper. I scarcely like to trouble you, & would not, - were I not very anxious to have by me all available material on Egyptian craniometry. Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy in the Medical School at Cairo, is also interesting himself in the matter. I go down three times weekly to his dissecting room & make measurements (including such as you & Prof. Windle require) on unclaimed bodies of hospital patients. By measuring these the same lengths as I have chosen to take on the living, & by repeating the measurements on the dried skeletons prepared from these corpses, I hope to obtain 80[?] results which will enable me to compare with the ancient Egyptian bones, the proportion of links[?] among the present population. I measure about twenty soldiers a day and have already done about 200 subjects. My dissecting-room work is especially promising as at present the Professor is engaged in macerating a number of bodies in order to prepare skeletons therefrom.
I hope you will not mind my troubling you to send me a copy of Miss Fawcett’s paper if you are arranging for its publication in the near future. This address will find me for the next three or four months.
Yours very truly,
Charles S. Myers.’
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