142 H. R. Storer on the decreasing increase 
in 71 years.* Or, to reduce these fractions to decimals—in Swe- 
den the rate of increase has lessened by a fifth, in Prussia by a 
fourth, in Denmark and England by a third, and in Russia, Spain, 
Germany and France by a half, ina single century. 
or convenience sake, larger bodies of statistics existing con- 
cerning it, and from the fact that it represents the extreme of 
- the alleged decrease, I shall take France as the basis of my com- 
parisons. 
In France at large, according to the official returns as analyzed 
by Legoyt,t+ the increase of the population, which from 1801-06 
was at the rate of 1°3 per cent, annually, from 1806-46 had fallen 
to about ‘5 per cent. The exact ratio of decrease after this period 
is better shown by the figures themselves. The increase from 
1841-46 was 1,200,000 
“ec 
In England during the latter period, with a population of but 
one half the s size, the returns of the Re — -General showing 
a riggs increase nine times greater. 
In 87 years from 1817-54 the mean annual increase in France 
was bat more than 156,000; yet in five years, from 1846-51, it 
had fallen to 76,000 year ly, and from 1851-56 to vi ag 
this, with a population ranging from 29 to 34 millions! 
comparison of these facts with those obtaining in other Eu- 
ropean states, will make the above still more evident. 
Taste I.—Rate of increase in Europe (according to Rau).g 
H ( ) Per cent. = . 
Rohrer 2°40 ar 1821-28 ‘. 
Denne, "1811-21 1-78 1815-30 es 
ae 1821-31 1°60 Baden 5 (Fleoniech eae E 
Prussia, 1816-27 154 » 4-28 1:08 
. 1820-30 = 1-37 Ne yiling 181 194 be 
1821-31 1-27 France —_-- 1817-27 
Austria (Rohrer), 1-20 more recently (DeJonnés), 088 
Scotland, 1821-31 1°30 
A similar and corroborative table, containing additional mat- 
ter, is given by Quetelet; its differences & 
owing to its representing a different series of years. 
* Moreau de Jonnés, Eléments de S ne, 1856, p. 202. 
Ser ie is oe cas uae 
’ 4 ed. , 1857, 
Lehrbuch der "Pelton ° * rene a 
Sur Homme et le Développement de ses Facultés, tom. i, ch, 7. 
