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Taxes on Land 



„ Buildings 



„ Personal Property 

 Inheritance Tax 

 Registration Fees - 



Totals, allowing for differ- 

 ences in population 

 Totals, excluding Land-tax 



Here the comparison is fairer in one respect ; every one 

 of these divisions, except the third, contains several large 

 towns. The dolichoid element in the second consists 

 largely of the northern dolichoblond race ; that present in 

 the fourth, and to a less extent in the third, is pretty purely 

 Mediterranean ; and in this race the leading qualities of the 

 dolichoblond are not supposed to be highly developed. 

 The attachment of the brachykephal to the land seems to 

 be shadowed in the large proportion it bears in his districts 

 to other kinds of property. 



Ammon finds that a natural selective process continues 

 to work among citizens, so that the longheads gradually 

 rise towards the higher social strata. Thus in the higher 

 schools the proportion of longheads is very large. 1 And in 

 thirty intellectual men, members of a scientific society, he 

 found an index of 8o'8, while twelve of the most dis- 

 tinguished yielded one of 79/6, the lowest mentioned in 

 his book. These low indices result from increased length, 

 not from decreased breadth. 



Against this observation of Ammon's must, however, be 

 placed that of Houze of Brussels, who found that in thirty 



1 It will be remembered that Dr. Venn's extensive observations showed 

 that first-class men at Cambridge were longer-headed than second-class 

 men, and they again than the simple pass men and the failures. Muffang 

 of St. Brieuc finds that in schools the dolichoids do best on the modern 

 side, the brachys on the classical. And there is some other evidence for 

 this. 



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