100 EX VIRIBUS VIVIMUS. 



with the barbarians of whom we desire the know- 

 ledge, no records have been obtained. Thus, in an 

 elaborate Report by Mr. Fenton to the Government 

 on the natives of New Zealand, published in the 

 ' Statistical Society's Journal,' ^ the whole statement 

 is quite barren of any facts relating to the longevity 

 of the Maoris. A kind of census is given, in which 

 all above puberty are distinguished from all below 

 puberty, but no greater detail than this. Even 

 less is known of the North American Indians, 

 the writer having consulted many authorities and 

 made many enquiries as to these and other native 

 races.^ Even in China, so highly organized and 

 civilized, nothing definite can be ascertained statis- 

 tically. That acute and accomplished man, Sir John 

 Bowring, says, ' I have no means of obtaining any 

 satisfactory tables to shew the proportion which dif- 

 ferent ages bear to one another in China, or the 

 average mortality at different periods of hum^n life.'^ 

 The only datum which he does adduce is appended 

 hereto with the life-tables (p. 105). Of the native popu- 

 lation of British India, thoroughly permeated as it is 

 by European administration, nothing is known relating 

 to longevity. Englishmen who have been residents are 



' Dr. Farr, Prof. Busk, Dr. Barnard Davis, Prof. E. A. Parkes, Dr. 

 Lawson (of the Army Medical Department, Inspector), Prof. Huxley, 

 Dr. Guy, Dr. Leared, Dr. AUbutt, and others, personally ; besides the 

 works of Quetelet, Wynn, Neison, Gairdner, Farr, Hendriks, many 

 travellers, and the volumes of the Journal of the Statistical Society. 



^ Stat. Soc. Journal, vol. xx. p. 42. 



