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i)f whom the Auu-Seti were the inhabitants of Nubia living on the Nile, Seti 

 being the traditional representative of Upper Egypt. The defeat of this people 

 may represent the moment of the change in Upper Egypt. As a result there 

 took place' a cross between two elementary species, the Ethiopians, belonging to 

 an elementary species of equatorial origin, and the Egyptians, belonging to an 

 elementary species of Nordic origin. 



THUBSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 

 The following Papers were read : — 



1. A Communication from Professor E. Manouvricr enliiled ' Una 

 Application Antliropologique a I'Art Militaire.' By Professor 

 Arthur Keith, M.D., F.R.S.^ 



In his Presidential Address to the Anthropological Section at Birmingham 

 (1913) Sir Pachard Temple emphasised the value of a knowledge of anthropology 

 for those who are called to occupy administrative posts in the British Empire. 

 In recent years Professor Manouvrier, Secretary of the Anthropological Society 

 of Paris, has sought to apply certain principles of physical anthropology to the 

 training of soldiers. At Professor Manouvrier's request a resume is given of 

 ' Une Application Anthropologique a I'Art Militaire : Le Classement des Hommes 

 et la Marche dans I'lnfanterie ' — a publication issued in 1905, but which has 

 passed without notice in this country. Professor Manouvrier maintains that, 

 on the march, soldiers should be grouped according to lengtii of lower extremity 

 rather than according to stature. It is maintained that physical fatigue is much 

 less in companies arranged on the principles proposed by Professor Manouvrier 

 than in those where the customary arrangement is adopted. 



Hereditary Syndactilism and Polydactilism {with Skiagraph 

 Exhibit). By Dr. J. Manson. 



3. Photographic Models of Egyptian Tombs. By Robert Mond. 



4. The Greek Element In Asia Minor. By E. M. Dawkins, M.A. 



The Greek element in Asia Minor has existed under the domination of the 

 Turks ever since the arrival first of the Seljouks and then of the Ottomans. It 

 was, however, not annihilated by the conquerors, and the regions where it 

 survived in greatest numbers are marked also by the preservation of the Greek 

 language. Thus, although in general the Greek Christians in Asia Minor talk 

 Turkish, and whatever Greek is used is due to the influence of the schools, in 

 some parts of Cappadocia and Pontus Greek is still the vernacular of the 

 Christian population. In the western parts of Asia the destruction of the 

 Greeks was more complete, and therefore there the language has only survived in 

 a few scattered villages. This local Greek is of great importance from many 

 points of view. Its mixture with Turkish is of great linguistic intere.'it; many 

 features in its grammar make it plain that it rests upon a form of Hellenistic 

 Greek different from that which has produced the ordinary modern Greek, and 



' Published in full in Army and Navy Gazette, October 16, 1915; pp. 90 seq. 



