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Anthropometrical Bureau, kindly searched his collection and sent a further 
sixty-five. 
The series included a few records of women and boys or youths under twenty. 
Both of these classes were rejected, but this was the only conscious selection 
operative on the statistics, which therefore deal with adult male Egyptian criminals, 
or rather adult male Egyptians accused of crime. 
It may be objected that criminality is in itself a determinating factor of 
selection, but the objection does not hold in Egypt. Here it cannot be said that 
there exists a definite criminal class, and criminals are rather amateurs than 
professionals. This state of things is in all probability due to the easy conditions 
under which the lower classes live. There is practically no abject poverty, and but 
little drunkenness among them, and two of the most frequent incentives to crime 
are thus eliminated. It is, however, possible that wealth may have acted in- 
directly as a selecting factor, for it is without doubt still true that the number 
of witnesses for the defence is sometimes regulated by the depth of the defendant's 
purse ; but in some respects this selection, if it does exist, will result in a distinct 
gain. The wealthier classes are generally, though not always, of foreign — Turkish, 
Albanian, Circassian, Tunisian, etc. — descent, while the poorer classes, on the 
other hand, are mainly autochthonous, but subject to a possible slight admixture 
with immigrant negro blood in the south and the foreign blood in the north*. 
It may be concluded, then, that the statistics are representative of the Egyptian 
and Nubian races with their local variations. 
(4) The measurements available are the length and breadth of the head, the 
stature, the lengths of the left cubit, of the left middle finger and of the left foot. 
The photograph is not attached, nor are the stigmata noted. Mutilations, including 
in this term tattoo marks, are common. The cephalic measurements are made in 
the usual manner. In noting the stature, a sudden, firm pressure is exerted on 
the abdomen, with the result that the subject draws himself slightly more erect, 
and it should be mentioned that all the measurements are taken between the 
hours of 9 a.m. and 12 noon, so that the stature has not undergone the diminution 
to which it is subject later in the day. When the lengths of the cubit and foot 
are being determined, the body is thrown forward, so that the weight is supported 
almost entirely by the left arm and flexed left leg. 
(5) One of the largest collections of anthropometrical statistics relating to 
Egypt is that made by Professor C. S. Myers f from the measurements of Egyptian 
soldiers, but this collection can hardly be described as a random sample of the 
population. The recruits are selected from a large number for physique, including 
* Incidentally it may be mentioned that there is an opinion prevalent in Egypt that foreigners 
cannot settle in the country, but die out gradually. I am not aware that any statistics have been 
published bearing on this question, but the crude material for a discussion of the fertility of the 
Northern races in Egypt would be available if access could be obtained to the various consular registers. 
The results of such an investigation could not fail to be of considerable anthropogeographical interest. 
t Journ. Anthrop. Inst, xxxvi. (1906), p. 237. 
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