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SCIENCE PROGRESS. 



head with a broad face forms what is termed a hisharmony. 

 In the fair dolichocephals, on the other hand, the head is 

 high, the face narrow, the chin moderately prominent, the 

 orbits normal, the skin, hair and eyes fair. It is obvious 

 that these two races are entirely distinct. 



2. A narrow-faced dolichocephal with a high head can 

 be distinguished, but Dr. Collignon believes that it is a 

 cross between two races, the brown and the fair dolicho- 

 cephals. This is a very favourable combination, and gives 

 rise to a beautiful variety of man. 



3. A rare but recognisable type, with an extraordinarily 

 narrow and elongated face, a retreating forehead, projecting 

 jaws and retreating chin, the concave nose is so broad as to 

 be nearly platyrhine, the hair and skin are dark. 



Putting the second of these two varieties out of count, 

 there only remain the brown dolichocephal with a dyshar- 

 monic face, and that with a retreating chin. They both 

 live in the basin of the Isle and its affluents, as much in 

 Charente as in Dordogne. 



From numerous other investigations we know that the 

 Neolithic dolichocephals of Western and Southern Europe 

 were a slight people with brown hair. They constitute the 

 Mediterranean race of Sergi, the western branch being 

 generally termed Iberians. The ancient cave-men of France 

 belonged to the same race ; by comparing certain indices of 

 these with the first group of our brown dolichocephals we 

 find a remarkable correspondence : — 



Further, the Cro-Magnon man had a dysharmonic face, 

 this is also characteristic of the Neolithic dolichocephal of 

 Laugerie, and it survives in their descendants in the valley 

 of the Isle. 



The remaining brown dolichocephalic type, with its low- 



