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I conclude, then, that the homogeneity of the Egyptians of this 
district is the same to-day as it was seven thousand years ago. 
Against the justifiability of this conclusion it may be urged 
that the modern Egyptians whom I have measured are a picked 
body of men, chosen for their good physique. But I have also 
made a special comparison of my modern material with the data 
obtained from thirty-five of the very tallest skeletons of the 
Nakada series ; and I have not found any appreciable difference 
between the selected and the unselected data as regards average 
head dimensions or as regards the variability of those dimensions. 
My last attempt has been to study the coefficients of correla- 
tion in the prehistoric and in the modern series (a) between 
length and breadth, (b) between length and auricular height, and 
(c) between breadth and auricular height, of head. 
Series 
No. 
Correlation 
L. and B. 
No. 
Correlation 
L. and 
Au. H. 
No. 
Correlation 
B. and 
Au. H. 
Nakada (“prehistoric”) 
139 
0-344 
±0-050 
64 
0-404 
±0-071 
64 
0-174 
±0-082 
Kena and Girga (“modern”) 
136 
0-082 
±0-057 
64 
0-237 
±0-080 
64 
0-379 
±0-072 
The above table shows that length and breadth and length and 
auricular height of head are much more closely correlated in the 
prehistoric than in the modern people, while the reverse relation 
holds in the correlation of head breadth and auricular height. 
B. Comparison of the present inhabitants of different parts of 
Egypt. 
The only significant differences that I have been able to find 
between the present inhabitants of different parts of the Nile 
Valley occur in respect of features which distinguish Negroid from 
Caucasian peoples. 
The nasal index increases in Egypt as we pass from the more 
northern to the more southern provinces. Probably the upper 
facial index decreases and the gnathic index increases in the same 
direction. The colour of the eye and skin also darkens, and the 
frequency of spiral and crisp hair increases. 
Possibly three provinces, Menufia, Kaliubia, and Sharkia form 
an exception to these conclusions. But in two of the three pro- 
vinces a sufficient number of data was not obtained. 
After careful analysis of the distribution curves of measure- 
ments and indices, I have not found it possible to resolve them 
