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deaths. These are the tables on which the commis- 

 sioners for the reduction of the national debt grant life 

 annuities in lieu of stock. 



I will now add some deductions made by myself 

 from the tables contained in the Recherches sur la 

 Reproduction, S$c., fyc. Brussels, 1832, by M. Que- 

 telet and Smits; republished in the treatise Sur I'Homme, 

 S$c. of the former. They are founded upon the 

 statistical returns of the whole of Belgium, made in 

 three successive years, and distinguish not only the 

 sexes but the residences of the parties, whether in 

 towns or in the country. The middle table is the 

 general average of the whole country, whether male or 

 female, in town or country. 



