262 SEVENTH REPORT—1837. 
or very nearly 20 males to 19 females. The result of 
eighteen years’ very careful observations for all France, from 
1817 to 1834 inclusive, gives 17 males for 16 females; and as 
this is derived from more than seventeen and a half millions of 
births, it is worthy of every confidence. Taking each year of 
the above period, the extreme variation was from 15 males to 
14 females, as far as 19 males to 18 females. My deduction 
varies so little, that we may fairly say the same law equally ob- 
tains, whether in a tropical or an extra-tropical climate. 
Amongst illegitimate births in France it would appear that the 
number of females approximates more nearly to males than in 
the legitimate births; the numbers, according to the French 
tables, being 24 males to 23 females: reducing all these to a 
common denomination, we have in the 
Poona Collectorate .. 94°27 per cent. of female births. 
In France, the average 
of 18 years, legiti- -94°11 do. do. 
mate sss Sane 
In France, legitimate 93:83 do. iat 
for'l'yeary 0s .%% LS ee 
In France, legitimat i ea be to 
94°73 do. do. 
for L-year i. 18% 
In France ¢dlegitimate, : 
average of 18 reuse. oP ae ot: 
It would thus appear that amongst illegitimate children 
there are nearly two more females born to every hundred 
males than amongst legitimate births. 
In the abstract of the census of the population of the 
Ahmednuggur Collectorate, taken in 1822, the boys were to 
the girls as 100 to 62°16; a singular disproportion, there being 
in the whole collectorate 96,447 boys, and only 59,956 girls; 
but the men were to the women only as 100 to 102718, 
the number of men being 146,750, and the women 149,945. 
In the city of Poona, in 1822, the boys were to the girls as 
100 to 73°26, a greater disproportion than Sir Stamford Raffles 
found in Java; at the same time the adult men were to the 
women as 100 to 10340. In the classes only of the Brahman 
priests, mendicants, and traders, were the men found to ex- 
ceed the women. In the city of Ahmednuggur, in 1826, there 
were 100 boys to 67°62 girls, but 100 men only to 106-06 
women; but the ultimate relation of males to females was as 
100 males to 92°46 females. 
