THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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From the N. Y. Sun. 



The European Possessions in Africa. 



creased to 25,000 and to all other non- 

 European countries to one or two thou- 

 sand. The birth rate in the city of 

 Berlin has fallen from -iO per thousand 

 to 20 per thousand. Germany has no 

 larger population than it can provide 

 for and needs at home. It has none to 

 spare for emigration, still less for the 

 field of battle. 



The birth rate and the natural in- 

 crease of population are the funda- 

 mental factors in racial advance. The 

 Slavs have overrun northwestern Eu- 

 rope and will continue to spread to the 

 south and west. Their natural increase 

 of population far exceeds that of Ger- 

 many, and will do so increasingly as the 

 death rate declines in Russia and the 

 birth rate continues to decline in Ger- 

 many. There are now three Eussian 



children born for each German child. 

 How can Germany's army of four mil- 

 lion soldiers contend against a surplus 

 of five million children born each year 

 in Russia? If Germany had waited a 

 little longer for its war, England would 

 have been on its side. But nothing ex- 

 cept a decline in the Russian birth rate 

 can check its ultimate triumph. We 

 can only hope that it will be a victory 

 of peace and civilization. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



"We record with regret the death of 

 Dr. Francis Humphreys Storrer, long 

 professor of agricultural chemistry at 

 Harvard University ; of the Rev. Horace 

 Carter Hovey, known for his publica- 

 tions on caverns; of Br. Frederic Law- 

 rence Kortright, professor of chemistry 



