ANTHROPOMETRY OF MODERN EGYPTIANS. 
By J. I. CRAIG, M.A., F.R.S.E. Director of the Computation Office, 
Egyptian Survey Department. 
(1) When in 1905 the Egyptian Government decided to raise the level of 
the Aswan Dam, they determined to make a thorough archaeological survey of 
the stratum of Nubia that would be affected by the elevation of the water-level 
when the reservoir was filled to its highest capacity. Although a large amount 
of work was done by non-official bodies, the chief share was carried out under 
Government auspices, and the general control of this portion was entrusted to 
the Director-General of the Survey Department. The services of Professor Elliot 
Smith, F.R.S., were retained for the investigation of the anatomical finds and he 
has described the first season's work in a report already published*. The measure- 
ments of the skulls and other bones found were made by Professor Elliot Smith 
or his assistants, Dr Wood Jones and Dr Douglas Derry, and the measurements 
were handed over to the Computation Office of the Survey Department to be dealt 
with statistically. At the same time some measurements of skulls from other 
parts of Egypt were also handed over for reduction. 
(2) Professor Elliot Smith fully realized that there would be a considerable 
gain if the measurements of the various series of skulls could be compared with a 
modern series, and accordingly by the good offices of Dr Harold Nolan, medico- 
legal expert to the Egyptian Government, and of Harvey Pasha, Commandant 
of Police in Cairo, a series of 10,000 measurements of modern Egyptian criminals 
was obtained from the Anthropometric Bureau, and handed to the writer. These 
records were taken from the whole collection absolutely at random in the first 
instance. The original intention was to select from them only the cephalic records 
pertaining to subjects originating in Nubia and Giza, for comparison with the 
figures belonging to the ancient skulls, but on the writer representing the benefit 
that would accrue if all the measurements could be systematically reduced, per- 
mission was accorded to apportion a small sum from the budget of the Computation 
Office to this work. To all these gentlemen the writer desires to present his 
acknowledgments for their help. 
(3) The series of records originally obtained included only thirty from 
subjects of undoubted Nubian origin, and Monsieur Aupest, Director of the 
* The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Vol. n. Cairo, 1910. 
