766 REPORT — 1881. 



Statistical Congress of 1878 are criticised, and a new system of classification is 

 established in harmony with the preliminary sciences. The system is developed to a 

 considerable extent in a series of tables, which are shown to include the facts of 

 Political Geography, of Economic Physics, Economic Geology, Economic Botany 

 and Zoology, of Anthropology and Demography, of Industry, Commerce, and 

 Political Economy generally.^ Various systems of economics are then criticised, 

 and the paper terminates with a classification of the other papers read in the 

 Sections of Economics and Anthropology, and a claim to have adopted the reforms 

 of Mr. Ingram and Mr. Grant DufF.^ 



> ' On the Classification of Statistics,' Proceedings Roy. Soc. Edin. 1881. 

 2 See Nature, September 29, 1881. 



