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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



The decline in the rate of increase is so great and palpable as to need 

 no comment. 



Here the perturbations due to immigration have obviously been 

 greater than in the case of the United States. The country was, in 

 fact, settled mainly between 1850 and 1870, without previously having 

 had a population to speak of. But deducting immigration, the increase 

 would appear to have been as follows in each decade : 



Rate of Increase Per Cent, of Population in Australasia, deducting 

 Immigration, in the undermentioned Periods. 



Per Cent. Per Cent. 



1851-60 48.5 



1860-70 30.0 



1870-8U 25.0 



1880-90 24.5 



1890-99 16.0 



Of course, so long as immigration continues, the effect is to swell 

 indirectly the natural increase of population, so that the large increases 

 here shown between 1851 and 1870, and even down to 1890, may be 

 accounted for in part as the indirect result of the large immigration 

 that was going on. But whatever the cause, the fact is unmistakable 

 that the rate of increase, apart from the direct immigration, has 

 declined just as it has done in the United States. 



There has been a similar though not nearly so marked a decrease in 

 England, at any rate if we carry the comparison back to the period 

 before 1850. The population at each census period since 1800 in 

 England, with the percentage increase between each census period, has 

 been as follows : 



* 



Population of England at the Date of each Census since 1800 unth Percentage 



of Increase hettoeen each Census. 



Thus the increase between recent census periods has been sensibly 

 less than it was before 1850; and the slight recovery between 1860 and 

 1880 has not been maintained. We are thus in presence of much the 

 same kind of change as has been shown in the United States and in 

 Australasia. 



It should be noted, however, in order that we may not strain any 

 fact, that, when the United Kingdom is viewed as a whole, Scotland 



