Dr. Behm and Professor Wagner, German geographers of standing, who
have devoted much attention to the statistics of population, have just issued a new edition of their calcula- tions. They arrive, after great labour, at results which we quote, because they modify materially the estimate popularly current in Great Britain :-
Europe ... ... ... 0.. 316,929,000
Asia ... ... 838,704,000 Africa .., ... ... 205,679,000 America ... ... ... ... 95,495,600 Australia and Polynesia ... ... 4,031,000 Polar Regions ... — ... ... ... 82,000 The World .. 1,455,923,500
The calculation for Europe, which must be substantially accu- rate, is much larger than the usual one ; but even then the immense bulk of humanity, ten in fourteen of mankind, dwells in Asia and Africa, a fact which the philosophers will do well to remember. The Londoner or Parisian is not exactly " Man."
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