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brachycephalic element, and left behind the race least of all dis- posed to migration the Mediterranean. 1

As in the comparison between Homo Europceus and Homo Alpinus we generalized the three laws the law of wealth-distri- bution, the law of social stratification, and the law of migration into the law of the superiority of the former race ; so now that the comparison has been extended in the case of each of the three special laws to include the Mediterranean race, we may, at least provisionally, again generalize our results under the follow- ing formula: In point of energy and capacity, Homo Europ<zus stands first, Homo Alpinus second, and the Mediterranean third, in the hierarchy of European races.

CARLOS C. CLOSSON.

1 The idea that the Mediterranean race ranked below the brachycephalic in mobil- ity and in ambition and efficiency was suggested to me in a communication from Otto Ammon which formed the basis of an article published in October iSgb (Ethnic Strati- fication and Displacement Quar. Jour, of Econ. XI. p. 92). Ammon brought forward the same suggestions very briefly in an article published in May 1896 (Fortschritte der Antkropologie und Sozial-Anthrofwlogie, Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift XI. No. 20.) and more elaborately in November 1896 (Die Geschichte einer Idee, V., Kundschau der deutschen Zeitung I, No. 196). In the present article I have, so far as concerns this phase of the subject, drawn largely from Ammon 's exposition.