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Sent From (Definite): Sir William Matthew Flinders PetrieSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 2 Mar 1913
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Sent fromSir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
2 Mar 1913
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‘Dear Professor Pearson,
Many thanks for your letter. We are at the end of our cemetery work of this year, so I can only report what we are bringing.
About 70 skulls of 1st dynasty, 30 with jaws complete. All were in a fearfully frail state, but by soaking with hard paraffin they are now good as new. There is a tremendous black nigger, & a negress with teeth sloping out flatter than I ever saw them.
10 early skeletons... 1st dyn.
18 late skeletons] complete }
14 late heads with jaws } abt. 300 B.C.
I fear that these are the shorter series for you; but the 1st dynasty heads are a fine haul.
The long bones & skulls as they lay in place were measured by an assistant, about 500 or 600 I should suppose. They were far too settled to move. There will also be 20 or 30 skulls of XIIth dynasty from adjacent work, budget accordingly.
The great find biologically is a pygmy camel of the 1st dynasty, the only example before Roman times. The skull is nearly the present size, the long bones about half the present. Fully adult in all these examples. Please say nothing of this for the present.
I enclose a report [not present], just in case you have not yet got the “American Naturalist” there named[?].
My wife is hard[?] busy at drawing all day, & encloses a line to Mrs Pearson.
Yours very sincerely,
W.M. F. Petrie.’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
2 Mar 1913
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‘Dear Professor Pearson,
Many thanks for your letter. We are at the end of our cemetery work of this year, so I can only report what we are bringing.
About 70 skulls of 1st dynasty, 30 with jaws complete. All were in a fearfully frail state, but by soaking with hard paraffin they are now good as new. There is a tremendous black nigger, & a negress with teeth sloping out flatter than I ever saw them.
10 early skeletons... 1st dyn.
18 late skeletons] complete }
14 late heads with jaws } abt. 300 B.C.
I fear that these are the shorter series for you; but the 1st dynasty heads are a fine haul.
The long bones & skulls as they lay in place were measured by an assistant, about 500 or 600 I should suppose. They were far too settled to move. There will also be 20 or 30 skulls of XIIth dynasty from adjacent work, budget accordingly.
The great find biologically is a pygmy camel of the 1st dynasty, the only example before Roman times. The skull is nearly the present size, the long bones about half the present. Fully adult in all these examples. Please say nothing of this for the present.
I enclose a report [not present], just in case you have not yet got the “American Naturalist” there named[?].
My wife is hard[?] busy at drawing all day, & encloses a line to Mrs Pearson.
Yours very sincerely,
W.M. F. Petrie.’
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