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Sent From (Definite): Charles Samuel MyersSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 14 Mar 1902
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Sent fromCharles Samuel Myers
14 Mar 1902
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‘Dear Prof. Pearson,
You asked me to let you know if I should be in Egypt in March: in order that you might send me the paper on prehistoric Egyptian crania. I have just decided to leave this country on the 20th. So will you kindly keep by you my London address:-
62 Holland Park W.
I have made over 15,000 measurements this season, on over 1000 Egyptians & on some 200 Sudanese. When I return I shall have other work to finish before I can set to study this mass of data. I hope some day for a short chat with you on the most satisfactory way of putting my material into shape - ? for the Biometrika. I have some 200 photos of Egyptian and Sudanese, - but am now a little wearied of the business.
Yours sincerely,
C.S. Myers.’
[enclosed newspaper cutting: ‘Dr C.S. Myers read a paper on “The Variability of Modern and Ancient Peoples,” in which he remarked that it had been generally supposed that modern peoples deviated more widely than ancient peoples from their respective means. His investigations on the Egyptian fellahin, however, lent no support to this supposition... More evidence was urgently needed, but what little there was supported the contrary hypothesis that modern and ancient populations living under like conditions of country and climate differed little in variability. Professor Karl Pearson, on the other hand, supposing that a diminishing struggle for existence encouraged the persistence of individuals showing greater variability, believed that variability increased with increasing civilization. The opposite view, however, appeared tenable, that stringent selection encouraged greater variability... The more prosperous community tended towards homogeneity; in other words, to regression towards the mean.’]
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Sent toKarl Pearson
14 Mar 1902
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‘Dear Prof. Pearson,
You asked me to let you know if I should be in Egypt in March: in order that you might send me the paper on prehistoric Egyptian crania. I have just decided to leave this country on the 20th. So will you kindly keep by you my London address:-
62 Holland Park W.
I have made over 15,000 measurements this season, on over 1000 Egyptians & on some 200 Sudanese. When I return I shall have other work to finish before I can set to study this mass of data. I hope some day for a short chat with you on the most satisfactory way of putting my material into shape - ? for the Biometrika. I have some 200 photos of Egyptian and Sudanese, - but am now a little wearied of the business.
Yours sincerely,
C.S. Myers.’
[enclosed newspaper cutting: ‘Dr C.S. Myers read a paper on “The Variability of Modern and Ancient Peoples,” in which he remarked that it had been generally supposed that modern peoples deviated more widely than ancient peoples from their respective means. His investigations on the Egyptian fellahin, however, lent no support to this supposition... More evidence was urgently needed, but what little there was supported the contrary hypothesis that modern and ancient populations living under like conditions of country and climate differed little in variability. Professor Karl Pearson, on the other hand, supposing that a diminishing struggle for existence encouraged the persistence of individuals showing greater variability, believed that variability increased with increasing civilization. The opposite view, however, appeared tenable, that stringent selection encouraged greater variability... The more prosperous community tended towards homogeneity; in other words, to regression towards the mean.’]
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