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is that for the three cities in the State of 

 Washington, namelj'', Seattle, Spokane, 

 and Tacoma. These three cities com- 

 bined had only 4, 981 inhabitants in 1880, 

 but their population had increased to 

 98,765 in 1890, and to 155,233 in 1900, 

 the increase during the past decade being 

 equivalent to 57.2 per cent. 



Nebraska is the only State in which 

 the combined population of the cities 

 contained therein shows a decrease from 

 1890 to 1900. 



There were in 1790 but six places hav- 

 ing 8,000 inhabitants or more, contain- 

 ing in all but 131,472 persons, or only 

 3.4 per cent of the total population at 

 that census. At the census of 1830 the 

 proportion of the total population living 

 in places of like size had been increased 

 to 6.7 per cent, representing 864,509 

 persons living in 26 places out of a total 

 population for the entire country of 

 12,866,020. At the census of 1850 there 

 were 2,897,586 persons living in 85 

 places of upward of 8,000 inhabitants, 

 equivalent to 12.5 percent of the entire 

 population, which comprised then 23, 

 191,876 persons. In 1880 the propor- 

 tion, as compared with 1850, had nearty 

 doubled, there being, out of a total pop- 

 ulation of 50,155,783 at that census, 

 11,318,547 persons, or 22.6 per cent, liv- 

 ing in 286 such places. During the suc- 

 ceeding decade there was a very large 

 increase in urban population, so that at 

 the census of 1890 very nearlj^ 30 per 

 cent of the population was found living 

 in 447 cities or equivalent incorporations 

 of 8,000 inhabitants or more, compris- 

 ing, as before stated, 18,272,503 persons 

 out of a total population of 62,622,250. 



The proportion of urban population 

 has increased during the past ten years 

 at a less rapid rate, there being, accord- 

 ing to the figures of the present census, 

 not quite one-third (33.1 per cent) of 

 the population now living in places of 

 8,000 inhabitants or more, exclusive of 

 Alaska, Indian Territory, Indian reser- 

 vations, Hawaii, and persons enumer- 

 ated at stations abroad. 



There has been a notable increase 

 since 1890 in the proportion of urban 

 population in the North Atlantic di- 

 vision of States, considered as a whole, 

 and this statement is true, in a some- 

 what less degree, of the north central 

 division ; 58.6 per cent of the total pop- 

 ulation of the North Atlantic division 

 and 30.6 per cent of that of the north 

 central division in 1 900 live in places of 

 8,000 inhabitants or more, as compared 

 with 51.7 per cent for the former and 

 25.9 per cent for the latter division at 

 the census of 1890. 



In Rhode Island 81.2 per cent of the 

 population in 1 900 live in cities or towns 

 of 8,000 inhabitants or more, while this 

 element also constitutes 76 per cent of 

 the population in Massachusetts, 68.5 

 per cent in New York, 61.2 per cent in 

 New Jersey, and 53.2 per cent in Con- 

 necticut. These are the only States, 

 aside from the District of Columbia, in 

 which the proportion of urban popula- 

 tion, measured on this basis, is greater 

 than one-half of the total population in 

 1900, but in Pennsylvania, Delaware, 

 Mar5dand, Illinois, and California there 

 is between 40 and 50 per cent of the 

 total population living in places of this 

 size. 



E. O. Hovey, associate curator of the 

 American Museum of Natural History 

 of New York, is at work in western 

 South Dakota collecting Jurassic fossils 

 for the museum. 



Prince Henry of Orleanst who with Bon- 

 valot traversed Tibet in 1890, died at 

 Saigon, French Cochin China; on August 

 9. The prince had also traveled exten- 

 sively in Campodia and Tonkin. 



