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the other, being equally a linguistic term, should go as well. 

 The only alternative seems to be to apply the term Homo 



Alpinus to this broad-headed group 

 wherever it occurs, whether in moun- 

 tains or plains, in the west or in the east. 

 The name is justified by the circum- 

 stance that its main body occurs in the 

 Alps, and that its purest types culminate 

 there as well. 



We now come to the last of our three 

 races, which is generally known as the 

 Mediterranean or Iberian type. It pre- 

 vails everywhere south of the Pyrenees, 

 along the southern coast of France, and 

 in southern Italy, including Sicily and 

 Sardinia. Once more we return to a type 

 of head form almost identical with the 

 Teutonic. Our portraits of Corsicans on 

 a preceding page, with the enlargement 

 of one of the four in the group, show the 

 exaggerated length of face and the nar- 

 rowness of the forehead. The cephalic index drops from eighty- 

 seven and above in the Alps to about seventy-five all along the 

 line. This is the primary fact to be noted. Coincidently, the 

 color of hair and eyes becomes very dark, almost black. The 

 figure is less amply proportioned, 

 the people become light and rather 

 agile. It is certain that the stature 

 at the same time falls to an exceed- 

 ingly low level : fully nine inches 

 more than a head below the aver- 

 ages for Teutonic Europe. Authori- 

 ties are, however, divided as to the 

 significance of this. It has been 

 shown that while the average height 

 is low, a considerable number, and 

 those of the purest type in other re- 

 spects, are of goodly stature. It 

 may indeed be that, as we have 

 already suggested, too protracted 

 civilization is responsible for this 

 diminutiveness. The people of 

 northern Africa (illustrated by our 

 portrait), pure Mediterranean Eu- 

 ropeans, are of medium size in fact. Personally I incline to the 

 view that culture is to blame, and that the type is normally of 



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