facts are substantially reproduced; this type is more homicidal than the Austrian Teutons living under a similar climate.  While these facts point to the conclusion that race has apparently some influence on the amount of crime, they fail to show that race characteristics alone are sufficient to explain the differences in criminality between the same peoples when settled in different quarters of the globe.  The Mongoloid type in Finland is less criminal than the same type in Hungary, and the Teutonic type in Scandinavia is less murderously disposed than the same type in the empire of Austria.  It has also been pointed out that the Anglo-American of the Northern States is more law abiding than his brother by race in the South, while both are more murderous than the inhabitants of the United Kingdom; where extremes of climate are not so great.

With these facts before us we shall now institute another comparison between two widely separated branches of the Anglo-Saxon race, namely, the colonists of Australia and the people of the motherland.  Of the Australian colonists it is not incorrect to say that they are, on the whole, the pick of the home population.  It is perfectly true that a certain proportion of the ne’er-do-wells have emigrated to Australia, and some of them, no doubt, help to swell the normal criminal population of the colonies.  But, on the other hand, Australia has this advantage, that the average colonist who seeks a home beyond our shores is generally a superior man to the average citizen who remains at home; he is more steady, more enterprising, more industrious.  In this way the balance is adjusted in favour of the colonies.  It is a great deal more than redressed if the superior, social, and economic conditions, under which the colonists live, are also placed in the scale.  In his “Problems of Greater Britain,” Sir Charles Dilke has shown, with admirable clearness, what immense advantages are enjoyed by the working population of Australia as compared with the same class at home; so much is this the case that the Australian colonies have been not inaptly called the paradise of the working man.  Here then is an excellent opportunity for comparing the effects of climate upon crime.  In Australia we have a people of the same race as ourselves, better off economically, living under essentially the same laws and governed in practically the same spirit.  Almost the only difference between the inhabitants of the United Kingdom and the communities of Australia is a difference of climate.  Does this difference manifest itself in the statistics of crime?  In order to test the matter we shall exclude the colony of New South Wales from our calculations.  For its size New South Wales is the richest community in the world, and its riches are well distributed among all classes of the population.  But it was at one time a penal settlement, and it is possible that the criminal statistics of the colony are still inflated by that remote cause.  The sister colony of Victoria