22 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 24

We must briefly mention a memoir on The Variation and

Corre- lation of the Human Skull, by Cicely D. Fawcett, B.Sc.; assisted by Alice Lee, D.Sc., and others ; reprinted from Biometrica. The chief material of the study were crania of the Naqada race, a prehistoric people whose cemeteries exist in Upper Egypt, pre- sumably about eight thousand years old. The most definite con- clusion reached is that "the close resemblance in the majority of characters of Nacpulas, Thebans, and Copts leads one to believe that one is examining substantially the same race at intervals during eight thousand years." The editing of the memoir has been done by Professor Karl Pearson.