386 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 



Northern Branch. 



FLOEIDIAN FAMILT, 70,000? 



IUOQUOIS u 5,000? 



LENAPE 40,000? 



ATHABASCAN" 40,000? 



Sioux " 35,000? 



PAAVNEES " 80,000? 



IYOLUSHEN " 50,000? 



WAKASII, " 20,000? 



CALIFORNIA*! " 60,000?= 400,000? 



Total, 9,600,000? 



VI. SUBDIVISION OF THE BLACK RACE INTO BRANCHES, FAMILIES, AND 



NATIONS. 



Western Branch. 

 A ^f J A *" LT ' S A large number of nations, of whom the most 



u I *" "6 



u I are unknown, 



NEGRO 



56,000,000 



Eastern Branch. 



_ . (Feejeeans; New Caledonians; New Hebrid-") 

 PAPUAN FAMILY, | eang . Salomon jgianders ; Papuas, 



j Andamans of the Andaman Islands, Indo- }- 1,000,000 

 ANDAMANIAN FAM. ] China, New Guinea, New Holland, Van | 



( Diemen's Laud, ) 



Total, 57,000,000 



From a paper recently published also by M. Dieterici, of the University of 

 Berlin, on the " Population of the Globe," we derive the following statistics, 

 which disagree materially with those of M. d'Halloy. 



The author adopts three different modes of classification : 



First, By totals of the several countries; 

 Second, By Races ; and 

 Third, By Creed or Religion. 



According to the first mode of classification, the mass of detail given, 

 sums up in the following round numbers : 



Average to the 

 Square Miles. Inhabitants. Square Mile. 



1. Europe, 2,900,000 272,000,000 93 



2. Asia, 12,700,000 755,000,000 60 



3. Africa, 8,700,000 200,000,000 22 



4. America, 12,000,000 59,000,000 5 



S.Australia, 2,600,000 2,000,000 1 



Round totals, 39,000,000 1,288,000,000 33 



The greatest density of population of a kingdom is exhibited in Belgium, 

 where it is 538 to the square mile; single districts in Rhenish Prussia show 

 as high as 700 to the square mile. 



Political economy has not yet found a gauge by which to determine how 

 densely people can be crowded, and make a living. In civilized Europe, the 

 density is steadily increasing. America promises a similar development in 

 future. Civilized emigration to Polynesia may tend to a similar develop- 

 ment in Australia. East India and China, although now densely peopled, 



