W.M.F. Petrie to K. Pearson, 13th Aug. [1895].- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Sir William Matthew Flinders PetrieSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 13 Aug 1895
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Sent fromSir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
13 Aug 1895
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‘My dear Pearson,
Many thanks for your notes. It is satisfactory to find a well marked peculiarity of the N.R. [i.e. New Race] to work from. The very small variability points to the homogeneity of the race, which is another good result. But how can you expect a long-head to agree to your suggestion of round heads being the only capable folks? I prefer to point the finger of scorn at the round headed Malays 806, Andanese 821, & American Ondian 839; & take my stand with the Ancient Egyptians than the ancient Anglo Saxons & the Scandinavians. Seriously, I suspect that long heads point to a recent growth of capacity in the race, height & length increasing more readily than width: while round heads mean a fused race or one which has regained a more economic form of skull since its expansion, in short a uniformity of capacity for some ages, be it high or low.
I would suggest to you to take Jarrow’s[?] measures of the Medium skulls (abstracts in Brit. Assoc. 1889?). His general result was that those bodies shewed a mixture of Negro & European type. The presumption is that they were a cross of Negro & New Race. Are their values intermediate between these, in the skulls? In any case they represent the lower class of Egyptian of the earliest historic age.
I should give very little care to Monk’s[?] result. They are probably such a hopeless jumble of ll ages & races in Egypt that it is useless to look for more than a general indication of the bulk-race or climate in such material.
I am glad to hear that the Anatomical Gallery may be used. Only I must look to the weight as two or three tons is in question.
Yours sincerely,
W.M. Flinders Petrie.’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
13 Aug 1895
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‘My dear Pearson,
Many thanks for your notes. It is satisfactory to find a well marked peculiarity of the N.R. [i.e. New Race] to work from. The very small variability points to the homogeneity of the race, which is another good result. But how can you expect a long-head to agree to your suggestion of round heads being the only capable folks? I prefer to point the finger of scorn at the round headed Malays 806, Andanese 821, & American Ondian 839; & take my stand with the Ancient Egyptians than the ancient Anglo Saxons & the Scandinavians. Seriously, I suspect that long heads point to a recent growth of capacity in the race, height & length increasing more readily than width: while round heads mean a fused race or one which has regained a more economic form of skull since its expansion, in short a uniformity of capacity for some ages, be it high or low.
I would suggest to you to take Jarrow’s[?] measures of the Medium skulls (abstracts in Brit. Assoc. 1889?). His general result was that those bodies shewed a mixture of Negro & European type. The presumption is that they were a cross of Negro & New Race. Are their values intermediate between these, in the skulls? In any case they represent the lower class of Egyptian of the earliest historic age.
I should give very little care to Monk’s[?] result. They are probably such a hopeless jumble of ll ages & races in Egypt that it is useless to look for more than a general indication of the bulk-race or climate in such material.
I am glad to hear that the Anatomical Gallery may be used. Only I must look to the weight as two or three tons is in question.
Yours sincerely,
W.M. Flinders Petrie.’
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