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appears to me to be supplied in Mr. Seebohm's work on 'The
English Village Community.' It will be remembered that, as
I have already stated, Mr. Seebohm brings forward evidence
tending to show that tho Teutonic people who gave their per-
sonal names so largely to the villages in these very counties
were much more probably Romanized Germans who had
been introduced here as forced colonists during the Roman
Occupation of Britain, than Angles, Saxons, or other un-
Romanized North Germans. Now while the Saxons and
Angles were fair, the southern Germans, who were introduced
into this country by the Romans, were probably—as the
south Germans now are—a much darker race. This indepen-
dent confirmation of the truth of Mr. Seebohm's views seems
to me a peculiarly interesting and valuable result of the
labours of the Anthropometric Committee.31 And the two
results, taken in conjunction, enable us to explain why these
eastern counties, in spite of the number of dark people they
contain, still remain thoroughly Teutonic in type. In other
words, they enable us to understand why the inhabitants of
the eastern counties, whether dark or fair, are slow and not
easily excited, while the fair Celts and dark Iberians of the
west constitute a people of a much more lively temperament.
It may be well to illustrate this difference of temperament
between the Teutonic and Celtic counties by a few examples.
As regards Essex, when Professor Meldola, Mr. Cole, and I
31 In the 'Times' of September 21, 1886, the following remarks appear.
"Curious Researches of an Antltropologist.—Professor Rudolf Virchow,
the celebrated surgeon and anthropologist, has lately prepared some in-
teresting tables concerning the colour of the hair, eyes, and skin among
the German school children. He examined (3,758,827 pupils, being nearly
four-fifths of all the youth of 'A. B. C. age. Of these 2,149,027 or 31.08
per cent, belonged to the blonde type, 942,822 or 14.05 per cent, to the
brunette, and 3,659,978, or 54.15 per cent, to the blonde-brunette or
mixed type. The territorial division of the principal types corresponds
accurately to the geographical boundaries of north, south, and middle
Germany, 43-3.36 per cent, of the pure blondes being found in the north-
ern districts, 32-5.28 per cent, in the middle, and 24-5.18 per cent, in
the southern ones. The river Main thus becomes an anthropological
line of significance. In general, the further south one goes the more
brunettes he meets, South Bavaria mustering but 14 per cent, blondes."