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Now the Herault is a comparatively rich and level 

 region, with a population of very mixed race, yielding to 

 the callipers mesokephalic and sub-brachykephalic indices, 

 while the nobility, Gothic or Galatic in its original strain, 

 may be taken to be mainly composed of the descendants of 

 those who have raised themselves to wealth by ability and 

 energy. But on its northern border is the Aveyron, a poor, 

 rugged, elevated district, with a decidedly broad-headed 

 population of the Alpine race or type. In accordance with 

 the well-known rule in such cases, there is, and has long 

 been, a constant stream of migration from the Aveyron to 

 the Herault, to which the analogous districts of the Tarn 

 and the Lozere also contribute. 1 A necessary result is a 

 gradual and slow increase in the kephalic index of a city 

 such as Montpelier, from the relative growth of the brachy- 

 kephalic element. And this process would have been much 

 more rapid but for the operation of a law, the discovery of 

 which we owe to De Lapouge and Ammon, viz., "the 

 greater readiness to migrate of the dolichokephalic element 

 in a mixed population," whence it comes to pass that the 

 Aveyronese emigrants are not so broad-headed as the 

 population they leave behind them, in the ratio of 84 to 



De Lapouge follows Gobineau in regarding the tall, 

 blond, long-headed breed of Northern Europe (the Aryan 

 race as some would call it, though I regard the term as 

 inaccurate and objectionable) as the salt of the earth, the 

 stirring, active, ambitious, independent, courageous, loco- 

 motive element of mankind ; and it appears to be this 

 character which is connoted by that projection of the occi- 

 put, which is more common in the inhabitants of these 

 islands than in those of almost any other country.'- "The 



1 The Aude, a comparatively long-headed district at the foot of the 

 Pyrenees, also furnishes a contingent, but not large enough to counter- 

 balance the Aveyronese. 



2 An English naturalist made an unexpected visit to Prof. Fitzinger, 

 the eminent Viennese anthropologist. " Welcome ! " said Fitzinger, " I 

 don't know who you are ; but I can see you are a Briton by the back of 

 your head." 



