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10,000 persons for the period of twenty years, 

 1879-98, with the percentages of the natural and 

 actual increases for the period, and the percentage of 

 excess of emigration over immigration where such 

 excess is found, and of excess of the immigration, in 

 the two countries France and Belgium. 



In the above table I have been unable to state the 

 natural and actual increases of the population of 

 Russia from 1879 to 1898, as the estimated popula- 

 tion of each successive year is not given, as it is in 

 respect of all other countries. I might, indeed, seeing 

 that for each year the registered numbers of births 

 and deaths are given, have calculated from the excess 

 of births over deaths the natural increase for the 

 period. But I have reason to believe that though 



