174 The American Naturalist. [February, 
Density 
Inhabitants. Area, sq. m. per sq. m. 
Western Europe......... 87,109,000 352,300 247 
Central Europe........... 93,609,000 464,400 200 
Southern Europe......... 71,826,000 557,800 130 
rn Europe........+. 98,000,000 2,106,500 47 
Northern Europe......... 9,100,000 378,000 23 
All Europe 359,635,000 3,859,200 93.1 
Notes as to the various estimates are appended ; those relating to the 
German Empire may be cited as an example. The “ Bevölkerung der 
Erde” in 1872 gave the area as 207,816 square miles ; in 1874 as m 
935; in 1876 as 207,943; in 1878, as in 1880 as 207,883; 
1882 as 207,899; in 1891 as 207,861; while Strelbitsky’s measure- 
ment is 208,008, and that adopted in the tables from the “ Statistisches a 
Jahrbuch fiir deutsches Reich” for 1891 is 207,929 square miles— — 
Proceeds. Roy. Geog. Soc., July, 1892. i 
t 
A Measure of Civilization.—Dr. Lamborn suggests that the 
proportionate length the artist gives the face or head to the body 
might be considered a measure of civilization. He finds that the Jais 
Spanish artists give 103 faces to the height. Dürer 10 to 1. 
Spanish artists 9 to 1. The measurements of a number of wood cuts 
of the Fifteenth Century run 5} to 1 and 6} to 1. The Mexican 
images are 4 to 1, 3} to 1, and 3 to 1. The gold figures of Peru masè 
the head larger than the body. (Lamborn’s History of Mexican Art) 
