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distinguishable from the Swiss, the Austrian, and other Alpine 

 types in France and northern Italy. Our three accompanying por- 



Mixed Type. Achern i. Baden. Stature, T62 metre. Cephalic Index, 83-3. 



traits will serve to illustrate this gradual change of physical type.* 

 The first is a pure blond Teuton, blue-eyed, fair-haired, with the 

 characteristically long head and nar- 

 row, oval face of his race. The fea- 

 tures are clear cut, the nose finely 

 molded. Such is the model common 

 in the upper classes all over Germany. 

 Among the peasants it becomes more 

 and more frequent as we approach 

 the Danish peninsula. Here in these 

 northwestern provinces it predomi- 

 nates, but gives place slowly to a 

 mixed and broader-headed type as we 

 pass eastward into Prussia. The in- 

 termediate type of head form prev- 

 alent in regions of ethnic intermix- 

 ture is depicted in our second portrait. 

 In this particular case the eyes were 

 blue, but the hair was brown. This 

 variety occurs all along the division 

 line between upland and plain, which we traced a few moments ago. 

 It appears that it is indigenous in Thiiringen, the Ilesses, and, in fact, 



* For these photographs I am indebted to my very good friend Dr. Otto Amnion of 

 Karlsruhe i. B , whose work we have noted elsewhere. 



Disharmonic Mixed Type. 

 Bavarian Tyrol. 



