834 Scientific News. [September, 
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CLASSIFICATION OF THE Races oF MAN.— 
At a meeting of the London Anthropological Institute, held May 
25th, Mr. R. S. Poole read a paper, reported in Mature, on the 
“ Ancient Egyptian Classification of the Races of Man.” This 
was defined by the famous subject of the four races in the tombs 
of the kings, at Thebes (B. C. 1400—1200). The types were (1) 
Egyptian, red; (2) Shemite, yellow ; (3) Libyan, white; (4) Negro, 
bla By comparison with monuments of the same period and 
of a somewhat earlier date, the first race, clearly an intermediate 
type, was seen to comprehend the Phenicians, the Egyptians and 
the people of Arabia Felix with the opposite coast. The Libyan 
race included an aquiline type, with marked supraorbital ridges 
and receding foreheads, as well as a straight-nosed type. These 
two types inhabited the south coast of the Mediterranean and 
some of the islands. The Negro race included the Negro and 
Nubian types. The Hittites and Hyksos, or shepherds, were as 
yet unclassed. Professor Flower remarked upon the resemblance 
of the aquiline Libyan type to that of the Neanderthal crania and 
the oldest European type; and saw in the Hyksos head dis- 
tinctly Mongolian characters. These two points are of the highest 
consequence in historical anthropology. 
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