728 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Ninth. Division. Wealth, Debt, and Taxation. 



Tenth Division. National and State Finances. 



Eleventh Division. Farms, Homes, and Mortgages. 



Twelfth Division. Agriculture. 



Thirteenth Division. Manufactures. 



Fourteenth Division. Mines and Mining. 



Fifteenth Division. Fish and Fisheries. 



Sixteenth Division. Transportation. 



Seventeenth Division. Insurance. 



Eighteenth Division. Printing and Stationery. 



Nineteenth Division. Statistics of Special Classes. 



Twentieth Division. Supervisors' Correspondence. 



Twenty-first Division. Alaska. 



Twenty-second Division. Statistics of Indians. 



Twenty-third Division. Social Statistics of Cities. 



Twenty-fourth Division. Accounts, Farms, Homes, and Mort- 

 gages. 



Twenty-fifth Division. Revision and Results. 



The progress of this vast work is probably at the present writ- 

 ing in as forward a state as could be expected, when the volume 

 of data called for, as indicated, is considered. The results show- 

 ing aggregate population by States, counties, and minor civil 

 divisions, and by sex ; condensed classification by ages, showing 

 the school, militia, and voting ages, by native and foreign white 

 persons and colored persons will be put into compendium form 

 and published, without much doubt, before the close of the pres- 

 ent calendar year. The classification regarding families and 

 dwellings, the volume of final reports for population, showing the 

 results in detail, by ages, conjugal condition, place of birth, and 

 all the varied distinctions of population, must not be expected 

 until some time in 1892, possibly by the early summer. All this 

 work is enough for the Census Office to handle at one time; but 

 when there is added to it the multitudinous divisions shown in 

 the foregoing list, it is not to be wondered at that progress is 

 slow, that the country criticises, and that increased appropria- 

 tions are called for. No superintendent, burdened with the pres- 

 ent system, can possibly satisfy the country, Congress, or himself. 

 And so the first lesson to be drawn from the census relates to the 

 system rather than to the results under it, and to what changes 

 are needed that the system may be improved. 



A eecknt find of mummies of dogs in Egypt has prompted M. Maspero to 

 suggest that these objects may furnish opportunities for studying the character- 

 istics of the most ancient of the domesticated species. Some efforts have been 

 made to determine these from the wall-paintings, but the data they afford are 

 very uncertain. 



