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DR. D. RANDALL-MACIVER, the accomplished archæologist and anthropologist, was born in 1873, and educated at Radley and the Queen's College, Oxford, where in 1896 he obtained a first class in Literœ Humaniores. It had been his youthful ambition to devote himself to the pre-Columbian cultures of America, but as this seemed impracticable, he came easily under the influence of Sayce and Grenfell at Queen's, and learned the technique of Egyptian excavation with Flinders-Petrie. He was the first holder of the Laycock Studentship for Egyptology at Worcester College (1900–6) and in 1907 directed the Eckley B. Coxe, jun., Expedition of the University of Philadelphia to Egypt and the Sudan; publishing also with Arthur Thomson a detailed anthropometric study of ancient Egyptian skeletons.
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MYRES, J. Dr. David Randall-Maclver, F.B.A. Nature 155, 663 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155663a0
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