The upper Palatinate, Upper, Central, and Lower Franconia, and Swabia, all give convincing proofs of Dr. Mayr’s thesis, though in Franconia the truth is less apparent through the fact that bad years brought increased emigration, which cut down the normal increase in the number of crimes. Where he treats of the different forms of crime, we read the following remarks, which are of interest in connection with our subject: “As we have just seen, crimes against persons increase when the price of grain goes up. We must except from this rule, however, two kinds of crime: infanticide and abortion.” The first of these crimes reached its maximum in the critical years 1854–55, and the second in 1853–1854. As a proof of the coincidence of the fluctuations of crimes against property with those of the price of grain in the period preceding that which he studied especially, Dr. Mayr gives the following table: ========+=================================+================ |Number of Crimes against Property| | to 100,000 of Population. | Years. +--------------+------------------+ Price of Rye | District of | District of the | in Munich. | the Isar. | Lower Danube. | --------+--------------+------------------+---------------- 1818/19 | -- | 138 | 8 fl. 15 kr. 19/20 | -- | 148 | 6 31 20/21 | 233 | 157 | 7 28 21/22 | 297 | 200 | 7 58 22/23 | 267 | 195 | 7 57 23/24 | 276 | -- | 6 2 24/25 | 295 | 166 | 6 59 25/26 | 317 | 157 | 6 18 26/27 | 315 | 144 | 6 55 27/28 | 463 | 241 | 11 11 28/29 | 416 | 234 | 11 6 29/30 | 401 | 216 | 10 48 30/31 | 427 | 264 | 11 12 31/32 | 530 | 302 | 12 35 32/33 | 493 | 313 | 8 21 33/34 | -- | 318 | 8 42 34/35 | 487 | 318 | 7 47 ========+==============+==================+================ In chapter IV (“Zahl und Bewegung der Polizeiübertretungen im Gebiete diesseits des Rheins”) Dr. Mayr gives some interesting information with regard to thefts of wood. The following table gives the figures for these crimes in this district compared with the others: