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aside from the Devonian fossils of Parana, those 

 of Matto-Grosso, the Amazonas [Argentina] and 

 the Falkland Islands, while the general conclu- 

 sions extend to the Devonian of all the continents 

 of the world. 



The text of this monograph, in Portuguese and 

 English, covers 353 pages, which are accompanied 

 by 27 handsome plates printed in Germany by the 

 most advanced processes of the lithographic art. 



This fine work as a contribution to pure science 

 does honor to the author, to the director of the 

 Geological Service, to the Ministry of Agriculture 

 and to the country. 



The composition and characteristics of the 

 population of Hawaii, as reported at the Thir- 

 teenth Decennial Census, are given in a bul- 

 letin soon to be issued by Director Duraud, of 

 the Bureau of the Census, Department of 

 Commerce. It was prepared under the super- 

 vision of Wm. C. Hunt, chief statistician for 

 population. Statistics are presented of num- 

 ber of inhabitants, increase and density of 

 population, proportions urban and rural, race, 

 nativity, parentage, sex, age, marital condi- 

 tion, place of birth, males of voting and 

 militia ages, citizenship, year of immigration 

 of the foreign-bom, school attendance, illiter- 

 acy, inability to speak English, and number of 

 dwellings and families. A previous population 

 bulletin for Hawaii gave the number of in- 

 habitants by counties and minor civil divi- 

 sions. That and the forthcoming bulletin 

 cover all the principal topics of the population 

 census except occupations and the ownership 

 of homes. The population of Hawaii at each 

 census from 1832 to 1910, inclusive, was as 

 follows: 1832, 130,313; 1836, 108,579; 1850, 

 84,165; 1853, 73,138; 1860, 69,800; 1866, 62,- 

 959; 1872, 56,897; 1878, 57,985; 1884, 80,578; 

 1890, 89,990; 1896, 109,020; 1900, 154,001, and 

 1910,, 191,909. Eacially the population of the 

 territory is extremely heterogeneous. In 1910 

 the pure Caucasian element numbered 44,048, 

 constituting 23 per cent, of the total popula- 

 tion. Of this class, which is itself composed of 

 diverse racial elements, 22,301, or slightly more 

 than one half, were Portuguese; 4,890 were 

 Porto Eican; 1,990 were Spanish, and 14,867 

 were of other Caucasian descent. The Japan- 

 ese, numbering 79,675, constituted 41.5 per 



cent., or more than two fifths, of the total pop- 

 ulation, while the Japanese, Chinese and Ko- 

 . reans combined, numbered 105,882, or 55.2 

 per cent., of the total population. Persons of 

 pure native Hawaiian stock numbered 26,041 

 and constituted 13.6 per cent, of the popula- 

 tion. In the decade 1900-1910 the number of 

 Caucasians in the population increased 15,- 

 229, or 52.8 per cent., the percentage of in- 

 crease for this race being practically the same 

 in this as in the preceding decade. The in- 

 crease of the Japanese in the decade 1900-1910 

 was 18,564, or 30.4 per cent. In the same 

 period the Chinese decreased 4,093, or 15.9 

 per cent. The number of pure Hawaiians de- 

 creased from 34,436 in 1890 to 26,041 in 1910, 

 the decrease in the decade 1900-1910 being 

 somewhat less than that in the preceding de- 

 cade — 3,758, or 12.6 per cent., as compared 

 with 4,637, or 13.5 per cent. Slightly more 

 than one half (98,157, or 51.1 per cent.) of the 

 population in 1910 was native, and slightly less 

 than one haK (93,752, or 48.9 per cent.) for- 

 eign born. The native element embraces all 

 persons born in Hawaii, or in any state or out- 

 lying possession of the United States. Per- 

 sons born in Porto Eico or in the Philippine 

 Islands, whether of Porto Eico, Filipino, or 

 other racial origin are accordingly classified 

 as native. For the Japanese the percentage 

 native was 25 ; for the Chinese, 33.2 ; for the 

 Portuguese, 61.7, and for the " other Cauca- 

 sian " element, 66.7. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The board of trustees of the University of 

 Illinois at a recent meeting voted to reopen the 

 college of dentistry which was closed in 1911 

 because of no appropriations. Doctor Freder- 

 ick B. Moorehead, of Chicago, was appointed 

 dean of the new dental college. The principal 

 items in the new building program for the im- 

 mediate future are: An addition to the chem- 

 istry laboratory, costing $250,000; an exten- 

 sion on the commerce building, costing $125,- 

 000; a school of education building, costing 

 $120,000; a woman's residence hall, $100,000; 

 another engineering building, costing $100,- 



