the human race sprang originally from two persons, there seems to be a great 
difficulty in reconciling this idea with the features which we see in the large 
marble busts of Thothmes and others, because it must have required a very 
great number of years to have produced such a diversity of features from the 
time of Adam ; it must have required a much longer period than we sup- 
pose to have elapsed.* The question which I wish to ask is one that is 
founded on this point. It struck me, on looking at the photograph which 
has been produced from the Ashmolean collection, that it corroborated what 
I have myself noticed, — namely, that the character of face, the thick lips 
and the peculiar features of Egyptian statuary, did not belong altogether to 
the earlier specimens. I would ask Mr. Savile whether his attention has 
been at all directed to this point ; because, if it be true that the earlier 
specimens do not bear that marked development, it is rather an answer to 
that difficulty, in the way of ignorant persons, of accounting for such a very 
marked character at that time. 
The Chairman (pointing to one of the drawings exhibited by Mr. Savile) : 
You should notice the features of this Pharaoh, supposed to be the patron of 
Joseph. He is one of the Hyksos or Shepherd kings, who were the descend- 
ants of Shem. The eighteenth Dynasty were descended from Ham, which 
makes a great difference. 
Mr. Savile.- — In replying upon this discussion, I must ask leave to make 
my answer as brief as possible. I have been obliged to curtail the paper in 
consequence of the limit of time at my disposal, but many of the subjects 
which have been mentioned by speakers are touched upon in the paper, and 
when it is printed you will be able to consider more in detail my reasons for 
arriving at such conclusions. As to the date of the erection of the Great 
Pyramid, which has been alluded to, I am sorry to say that Egyptologists differ 
about it to the extent of no less than 4,000 years ; e.g., a French author, Le 
Suer, dates it at 4,975, and the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis, assuming 
the strange chronology of Herodotus to be correct, dates the erection of the 
Great Pyramid as B.C. 903, or a century later than that of Solomon’s Temple ! 
The idea for estimating the approximate date which I have selected, viz. 
B.C. 2170, originated with Col. Howard Vyse, who lived at the Pyramids fifty 
years ago, and induced the late Sir John Herschel to work out an astrono- 
mical theory from it. He first of all assumed, that an observer standing 
in the passage of the Pyramid leading to the King’s chamber, at the time 
* Dr. Kitchen Parker, F.R.S., has called my attention to the distinct 
race the Americans are becoming, and how a short time has produced a con- 
siderable change ; he adds : “ The Yankee is a good sub-species already, and 
a very fine type he is.” Principal Dawson,. F.R.S., in his address as Presi- 
dent of the Montreal Natural History Society (May, 1874), says, in regard to 
changes culminating rapidly, and then becoming stationary, each “ specific 
type has capacities for the production of varietal and race forms which are 
usually exercised to the utmost in the early stages of its existence ; and 
then remain fixed, or disappear and reappear, as circumstances may arise. 
Finally, the races fall off one by one, as it approaches extinction.” — Ed. 
