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Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
R. H. Patterson Is the Value of Money Rising in England
and Throughout the World? With Remarks
on the Effect of the Fluctuating
Conditions of Trade Upon the Value of
Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--34
G. Phillips Bevan The Strikes of the Past Ten Years . . . 35--64
Thomas A. Welton On Certain Changes in the English Rates
of Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--94
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1879 95--109
Anonymous The Fires of London During the Year
1879, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 109--114
Anonymous English Literature in 1879 . . . . . . . 114--116
Anonymous German Literature of 1878 and 1879 . . . 116--117
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1879 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--123
Anonymous Rates of Life Insurance Premiums . . . . 123--134
Anonymous Report of a Committee with Reference to
the Census of 1881 . . . . . . . . . . . 134--139
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--143
Anonymous Notes on Some of the Additions to the
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--147
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 159--182
Frederic J. Mouat On the Education and Training of the
Children of the Poor . . . . . . . . . . 183--250
T. Graham Balfour Vital Statistics of Cavalry Horses . . . 251--274
Patrick George Craigie Ten Years' Statistics of British
Agriculture, 1870--79 . . . . . . . . . 275--312
J. B. Lawes and
J. H. Gilbert On the Home Produce, Imports,
Consumption, and Price of Wheat, over
Twenty-Eight (or Twenty-Seven)
Harvest-Years, 1852--53 to 1879--80
Inclusive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--340
Anonymous General Results of the Commercial and
Financial History of 1879 . . . . . . . 341--355
Anonymous The Movement of the Population in Russia
During the Years 1867--70 . . . . . . . 356--364
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for the Year 1879 . . . . . . . . . . . 365--379
Anonymous An Iron Trade Chart . . . . . . . . . . 380--381
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--388
Anonymous Notes on Some of the Additions to the
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--393
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 393--404
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1879, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 30th June,
1880, Presented at the Forty-Sixth
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand, London, on the 30th
of June, 1880, and of the Proceedings at
the Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--416
Anonymous Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 417--422
Leone Levi A Survey of Indictable and Summary
Jurisdiction Offences in England and
Wales, from 1857 to 1876, in
Quinquennial Periods, and in 1877 and
1878 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--461
R. Price Williams On the Increase of Population in England
and Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--508
Harald Westergaard Mortality in Remote Corners of the World 509--520
Anonymous Ten Years' Railway Statistics . . . . . 521--531
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--547
Anonymous Notes on Some Additions to the Library 547--548
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 548--558
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 721--743
James Caird The Inaugural Address of James Caird,
Esq., C.B., F.R.S., President of the
Statistical Society, Delivered on
Tuesday the 16th of November, 1880 . . . 559--572
F. J. Mouat Note on the Tenth Census of the United
States of America . . . . . . . . . . . 573--604
Henry Percy Potter ``The Oriental Plague in its Social,
Economical, Political, and International
Relations, special Reference Being made
to the `Labours of John Howard on the
Subject'\,'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--642
Anonymous The Agricultural Returns for the Year
1880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--664
Anonymous The Corn Crops of 1880 . . . . . . . . . 664--670
Anonymous Ten Years' Results of the London School
Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--682
Anonymous The Annual Local Taxation Returns of
1878--79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--687
Anonymous Ten Years's Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . 687--690
Anonymous The Population of the Earth . . . . . . 690--697
Anonymous Statistics of Australasian Colonies . . 698--699
Anonymous Agricultural Distress and Bills of Sale 700--705
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--708
Anonymous Notes on Some Additions to the Library 709--711
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 711--720
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
R. Price Williams The Question of the Reduction of the
Present Postal Telegraph Tariff . . . . 1--30
Wynnard Hooper The Method of Statistical Analysis . . . 31--49
A. V. [A. Vesselovsky] Land Tenure and the Distribution of the
Population in Russia . . . . . . . . . . 50--74
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1880 75--89
Anonymous The Fires in London During the Year
1880, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 89--94
Anonymous German Literature of 1879 and 1880 . . . 95--95
Anonymous English Literature in 1880 . . . . . . . 95--97
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--103
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Anonymous Notes on Some of the Additions to the
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 109--116
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 117--140
H. R. Droop On Methods of Electing Representatives 141--202
R. Denny Urlin The History and Statistics of the Irish
Incumbered Estates Court, with
Suggestions for a Tribunal with Similar
Jurisdiction in England . . . . . . . . 203--234
William A. Guy On Temperature and its Relation to
Mortality: An Illustration of the
Application of the Numerical Method to
the Discovery of Truth . . . . . . . . . 235--268
Anonymous The Proceedings of the Statistical
Committee of the Treasury . . . . . . . 269--367
Anonymous Commercial and Financial History of 1880 368--381
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for the Year 1880 . . . . . . . . . . . 381--393
Anonymous Illegitimacy in England and Wales, 1879 394--398
Anonymous Census of England and Wales and of the
United Kingdom, 1881 . . . . . . . . . . 398--413
Anonymous The Population of the United States . . 414--417
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 417--428
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1880, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 28th June,
1881, Presented at the Forty-Seventh
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand, London, on the 28th
of June, 1881; and also, of the
Proceedings at the Meeting . . . . . . . 429--443
Cornelius Walford On the Number of Deaths from Accident,
Negligence, Violence, and Misadventure
in the United Kingdom and Some Other
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--527
Hyde Clarke The English Stations in the Hill Regions
of India: Their Value and Importance,
with Some Statistics of their Products
and Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--573
Anonymous International Statistics of Merchant
Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--584
Anonymous The Territorial Acquisitions of Russia
During the Reign of Alexander II . . . . 584--588
Anonymous Turkish Official Statistics . . . . . . 588--590
Anonymous Bankruptcy Statistics . . . . . . . . . 590--596
Anonymous Price of Best Coal in Port of London,
1832--80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--596
Anonymous Census of Congregations of the City
Churches and Chapels . . . . . . . . . . 596--601
Anonymous Statistics of the Newspaper and
Periodical Press . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--608
Anonymous Statistics of Foreign Libraries . . . . 608--611
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--614
Anonymous Notes on Some Additions to the Library 614--618
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 618--628
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 769--790
Anonymous The Opening Address of James Caird,
Esq., C.B., F.R.S., President of the
Statistical Society, Delivered on
Tuesday, 15th November, 1881 . . . . . . 629--643
Anonymous Proceedings on the 15th November, 1881 644--648
M. E. Grant Duff Address of the President of Section F,
``Economic Science and Statistics'', of
the British Association, at the
Fifty-First Meeting, held at York, in
August, 1881 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--659
J. T. Danson Statistical Observations on the Growth
of the Human Body (Males) in Height and
Weight, from Eighteen to Thirty Years of
Age, as Illustrated by the Records of
the Borough Gaol of Liverpool . . . . . 660--674
G. Phillips Bevan The Industrial Resources of Ireland . . 675--721
Anonymous The Agricultural Returns for the Year
1881 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--743
Anonymous Opium in China: How Many Smokers does
the Foreign Drug Supply? . . . . . . . . 743--750
J. W. Batten Telelogues and Telegraph Messages . . . 750--751
Richard Seyd Statistics of Failures in the United
Kingdom during the Years 1880 and 1881 751--755
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--757
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 757--768
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Leone Levi The Economic Progress of Italy during
the Last Twenty Years, since the
Formation of the Italian Kingdom in 1861 1--36
John Glover Tonnage Statistics of the Decade
1870--80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--81
Anonymous The World's Progress in Trade and
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--114
Anonymous The Death of Mr. William Newmarch . . . 115--121
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1881 121--132
Anonymous The Fires in London During the Year
1881, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 132--136
Anonymous German Literature of 1880 and 1881 . . . 137--137
Anonymous English Literature in 1881 . . . . . . . 137--139
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1881 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
Anonymous Notes on Some Additions to the Library 145--146
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 146--156
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 157--180
R. Giffen The Use of Import and Export Statistics 181--296
Stephen Bourne The National Expenditure upon Alcohol 297--332
Anonymous Mr. Newmarch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for the Year 1881 . . . . . . . . . . . 333--345
Anonymous Bad Harvests and Agricultural Depression 346--358
Anonymous Agricultural Decline . . . . . . . . . . 359--371
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 371--382
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1881, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 27th June,
1882, Presented at the Forty-Eighth
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand, London, on the 27th
of June, 1882 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--398
William A. Guy Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Small Pox
in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--443
Henry C. Burdett The Relative Mortality, after
Amputations, of Large and Small
Hospitals, and the Influence of the
Antiseptic (Listerian) System upon such
Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--483
Anonymous Professor William Stanley Jevons . . . . 484--488
Anonymous The French Railway Regime Compared with
the Systems Established in Other
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--504
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 504--518
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 641--661
Robert Giffen The Utility of Common Statistics. The
Inaugural Address of Robert Giffen,
Esq., President of the Statistical
Society, Delivered on Tuesday, 21st
November, 1882 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--546
Anonymous Proceedings on the 21st November, 1882 547--548
G. Sclater-Booth Address of the President of Section F,
``Economic Science and Statistics'' of
the British Association, at the
Fifty-Second Meeting, Held at
Southampton, in August, 1882 . . . . . . 549--557
Bonamy Price Address of the President of the
Department IV, ``Economy and Trade'' of
the National Association for the
Promotion of Social Science, at the
Twenty-Sixth Annual Congress, Held at
Nottingham, in September, 1882 . . . . . 558--576
William A. Guy The Small Pox Epidemic as Affected by
the States of War and Peace. A Paper
Read at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Congress
of the National Association for the
Promotion of Social Science, Held at
Nottingham, in September, 1882 . . . . . 577--587
Anonymous The Agricultural Returns for the Year
1882 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--605
Anonymous The Organisation of Government
Statistical Offices . . . . . . . . . . 606--623
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 623--640
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
P. G. Craigie Statistics of Agricultural Production 1--58
Arthur Ellis The Parliamentary Representation of the
Metropolitan, Agricultural, and
Manufacturing Divisions of the United
Kingdom, with Suggestions for its
Redistribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--100
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1882 101--113
A. E. Bateman A Note on the Statistics of Wine
Production in France . . . . . . . . . . 113--119
Anonymous Decay of Population in France . . . . . 119--128
Anonymous Australasian Statistics . . . . . . . . 128--145
Anonymous The Fires in London during the Year
1882, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 145--149
Anonymous German Literature of 1881 and 1882 . . . 150--150
Anonymous English Literature in 1882 . . . . . . . 150--152
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 152--164
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 165--188
Noel A. Humphreys The Recent Decline in the English
Death-Rate, and its Effect upon the
Duration of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--224
James Johnston Education in India and the India
Commission on Education . . . . . . . . 225--282
Rowland Hamilton Popular Education in England and Wales
before and after the Elementary
Education Act of 1870 . . . . . . . . . 283--349
Anonymous Dr. William Farr . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--351
Anonymous Review of the General Results of
Demography Applied to Political Economy 351--367
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for the Year 1882 . . . . . . . . . . . 367--379
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1882 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--387
Anonymous The Annual Local Taxation Returns
(England) of the Year 1880--81 . . . . . 387--391
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 392--404
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1882, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 26th June,
1883, Presented at the Forty-Ninth
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand, London, on the 26th
of June, 1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--422
Stephen Bourne Food Products and their International
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--460
Wynnard Hooper The Theory and Practice of Statistics 461--516
E. Foxwell English Express Trains: Their Average
Speed, &c., with Notes on Gradients, Long
Runs, &c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--574
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 574--592
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 739--760
R. Giffen The Progress of the Working Classes in
the Last Half Century: Being the
Inaugural Address of R. Giffen, LL.D.,
President of the Statistical Society,
Session 1883--84. Delivered 20th
November, 1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--622
Anonymous Proceedings on the 20th November, 1883 623--625
R. H. Inglis Palgrave ``Economic Science and Statistics.'' The
Address of the President of Section F of
the British Association, at the
Fifty-Third Meeting, Held at Southport,
in September, 1883 . . . . . . . . . . . 626--636
J. E. Thorold Rogers ``Economy and Trade.'' The Address of
the President of the Department IV of
the National Association for the
Promotion of Social Science, Held at
Huddersfield in October, 1883 . . . . . 637--655
V. John The Term ``Statistics.'' . . . . . . . . 656--679
Anonymous Census of Bengal, 1881 . . . . . . . . . 680--690
Anonymous The Agricultural Returns for the Year
1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--713
F. Y. Edgeworth On the Method of Ascertaining a Change
in the Value of Gold . . . . . . . . . . 714--718
Anonymous Life Saving Processes Applied to Railway
Travelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--720
Anonymous Land Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--721
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 721--738
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Leone Levi Statistics of the Revenue of the United
Kingdom from 1859--82, in Relation to
the Distribution of Taxation (in
continuation of a Paper read in 1860) 1--33
J. H. Poynting A Comparison of the Fluctuations in the
Price of Wheat and in the Cotton and
Silk Imports into Great Britain . . . . 34--74
John Biddulph Martin Electoral Statistics: A Review of the
Working of our Representative System
from 1832--1881, in view of Prospective
Changes Therein . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--124
R. D. R. Sweeting ``The Experiences and Opinions of John
Howard on the Preservation and
Improvement of the Health of the Inmates
of Schools, Prisons, Workhouses,
Hospitals, and other Public
Institutions, as far as Health is
Affected by Structural Arrangements
Relating to Supplies of Air and Water,
Drainage, &c.'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--141
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1883 142--150
P. A. Delboy The Present Position of Spain Compared
with Other European Countries . . . . . 150--163
F. Y. Edgeworth The Rationale of Exchange . . . . . . . 164--166
Anonymous Record of Family Faculties . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous The Fires in London During the Year
1883, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 166--170
Anonymous German Literature of 1882 and 1883 . . . 171--171
Anonymous English Literature in 1883 . . . . . . . 171--173
Anonymous ``The Progress of the Working Classes in
the Last Half Century . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 175--196
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 197--220
G. B. Longstaff The Recent Decline in the English
Death-Rate Considered in Connection with
the Causes of Death . . . . . . . . . . 221--258
H. B. Willock English Express Trains in 1871; and a
Comparison Between Them and Those of
1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--311
Cornelius Walford A Statistical Review of Canada,
Including its Confederated Provinces . . 312--347
Paul Leroy-Beaulieu The Fall in the Price of Commodities;
its Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . 348--359
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for 1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--367
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--374
Anonymous Local Taxation Returns (England) for the
Year 1881--82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--380
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 380--394
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1883, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 24th June,
1884, Presented at the Fiftieth
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand London, on the 24th of
June, 1884 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--414
Joseph Rabino Some Statistics of Egypt . . . . . . . . 415--467
Richard Temple ``The General Statistics of the British
Empire.'' The Address of the President
of Section F, ``Economic Science and
Statistics,'' of the British Association
at the Fifty-Fourth Meeting, held at
Montreal, in August, 1884 . . . . . . . 468--484
John Biddulph Martin Media of Exchange: Being Some Notes on
the Precious Metals and Their
Equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--495
Armand Liegeard Immigration into the United States . . . 496--516
Frederic Harrison A New Industrial Inquiry . . . . . . . . 516--519
Jacques Bertillon The Fate of the Divorced . . . . . . . . 519--526
Anonymous Catalogue of the Library of the
Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 526--528
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 529--546
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 713--733
Rawson W. Rawson British and Foreign Colonies: Being the
Inaugural Address of Sir Rawson W.
Rawson, K.C.M.G., C.B., President of the
Statistical Society, Session 1884--85.
Delivered 18th November, 1884 . . . . . 547--608
A. E. Bateman Wine Production in France . . . . . . . 609--613
J. S. Jeans On the Comparative Efficiency and
Earnings of Labour at Home and Abroad 614--665
Anonymous The Agricultural Returns for the Year
1884 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--691
Anonymous Savings Banks Statistics . . . . . . . . 691--694
Anonymous Industrial Remuneration Conference . . . 694--694
Anonymous The Forthcoming Celebration of the
Society's Jubilee . . . . . . . . . . . 695--696
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 696--712
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Richard Temple Population Statistics of China . . . . . 1--20
E. W. Brabrook The Relation of the State to Thrift; Ten
Years' Statistics of Friendly Societies
and Similar Institutions . . . . . . . . 21--53
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1884 54--63
Emile Levasseur Emigration in the Nineteenth Century . . 63--81
Henry Ling Roth Arbere. A Short Contribution to the
Study of Peasant Proprietorship . . . . 81--91
Anonymous The Fires in London during the Year
1884, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 91--96
Anonymous German Literature of 1883 and 1884 . . . 97--97
Anonymous English Literature in 1884 . . . . . . . 97--99
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1884 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--108
Archibald J. Dunn The Trade of Marseilles . . . . . . . . 108--116
Anonymous Statistics of Murder in the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--121
Anonymous The Industrial Remuneration Conference 121--121
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 122--142
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 143--166
E. G. Ravenstein The Laws of Migration . . . . . . . . . 167--235
Arthur Knatchbull Connell Indian Railways and Indian Wheat . . . . 236--276
C. Le Neve Foster On the Relative Dangers of Coal and
Metal Mining in the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland . . . . . . . 277--279
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for the Year 1884 . . . . . . . . . . . 280--287
Anonymous Statistical Results of the last Census
of France, Prussia, Austria, Italy,
Switzerland, and Belgium . . . . . . . . 288--297
Anonymous The Agricultural Crisis in Europe . . . 297--312
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 313--332
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1884, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 23rd June,
1885, Presented at the Fifty-First
Annual Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held in the Theatre of the
University of London, Burlington
Gardens, W., on the 23rd of June, 1885 333--346
Anonymous Proceedings of the Fifty-First
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 346--348
R. Price-Williams The Population of London, 1801--81 . . . 349--440
Anonymous Recent Legislation and Economic Science:
The Newmarch Memorial Essay . . . . . . 441--468
Paul Leroy Beaulieu Wine Production in France . . . . . . . 469--482
Anonymous Inland Revenue Report, 1884--85, with
some Retrospective History . . . . . . . 482--484
Anonymous Foreign Trade of the United Kingdom . . 484--491
Anonymous The Society's Jubilee . . . . . . . . . 491--492
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 492--504
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 699--716
Rawson W. Rawson International Statistics, Illustrated by
Vital Statistics of Europe and of Some
of the United States of America; being
the Opening Address of Sir Rawson,
K.C.M.G., C.B., President of the
Statistical Society and of the
International Statistical Institute.
Session 1885--86. Delivered 17th
November, 1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--592
Anonymous Proceedings on the 17th November, 1885 593--594
Henry Sidgwick ``Economic Science and Statistics.'' The
Address of the President of Section F of
the British Association, at the
Fifty-Fifth Meeting, Held at Aberdeen,
in September, 1885 . . . . . . . . . . . 595--616
A. E. Bateman Customs Tariffs . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--627
F. Y. Edgeworth On Methods of Ascertaining Variations in
the Rate of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--649
Anonymous Dr. William A. Guy . . . . . . . . . . . 650--651
Anonymous Mr. Cornelius Walford . . . . . . . . . 651--652
Anonymous The Migrations of the Population in
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--667
Anonymous Statistics of Australasian Colonies . . 668--669
Anonymous Small Pox in Germany . . . . . . . . . . 670--674
Anonymous The Registrar-General's Ten Years'
Supplement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--680
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 681--698
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Thomas Scrutton ``Preventible Loss of Life at Sea'' . . 1--17 + 19--27
Anonymous Proceedings on the 15th December, 1885 17--18
Robert Giffen Further Notes on the Progress of the
Working Classes in the Last Half Century 28--100
William Ogle Suicides in England and Wales in
Relation to Age, Sex, Season, and
Occupation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--135
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1885 136--144
Anonymous The Agricultural Returns for the Year
1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--163
Anonymous Mortality in the Medical Profession . . 164--170
Anonymous The Fires in London During the Year
1885, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 170--175
Anonymous German Literature of 1884 and 1885 . . . 176--176
Anonymous English Literature in 1885 . . . . . . . 176--178
Anonymous The Production of Precious Metals and
the Monetary Circulation in Various
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--186
E. Fournier de Flaix The National Wealth of France Compared
with Other Countries . . . . . . . . . . 186--200
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 201--216
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 217--240
Leone Levi ``The Progress of Joint Stock Companies
with Limited and Unlimited Liability in
the United Kingdom, during the ``Fifteen
Years 1869--84.'' (In Continuation of a
Paper read before the Society in
January, 1870) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--272
Stephen Bourne Foreign and Colonial Tariffs as
Influencing Prices and Affecting Trade 273--313
Charles Booth Occupations of the People of the United
Kingdom, 1801--81 . . . . . . . . . . . 314--444
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--450
M. Le Vicomte Rorric de Beaucaire The Migration from the Rural Districts
and the Condition of the Agricultural
Population in Germany . . . . . . . . . 450--468
F. Y. Edgeworth Progressive Means . . . . . . . . . . . 469--475
Anonymous Census of Part of the North-West
Territories of Canada, August, 1885 . . 476--479
Anonymous Index to the Catalogue of the Library 480--480
Anonymous Statistics of the Newspaper and
Periodical Press . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--482
Anonymous Notes on Some Recent Additions to the
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--494
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 494--512
Rawson W. Rawson Report of the Council for the Financial
Year ended 31st December, 1885, and for
the Sessional Year ending 29th June,
1886, Presented at the Fifty-Second
Annual Meeting of the Statistical
Society, held at the Society's Rooms, 9,
Adelphi Terrace, Strand, London, on the
29th of June, 1886 . . . . . . . . . . . 513--531
Anonymous Proceedings of the Fifty-Second
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 532--538
Robert Stout Notes on the Progress of New Zealand for
Twenty Years, 1864--84 . . . . . . . . . 539--580
Augustus Sauerbeck Prices of Commodities and the Precious
Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--648
F. Y. Edgeworth The Mathematical Method of Statistics 649--654
Anonymous On a Calculating Instrument Called a
Universal Proportion Table . . . . . . . 655--656
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for 1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--661
M. Toussaint Loua Statistical Review of the Present
Position of Italy . . . . . . . . . . . 662--672
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672--678
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 678--692
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 805--823
J. S. Jeans On the Cost and the Conditions of
Working Railway Traffic in Different
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--735
John Biddulph Martin ``Economic Science and Statistics.'' The
Address of the President of Section F of
the British Association, at the
Fifty-Sixth Meeting, Held at Birmingham,
in September, 1886 . . . . . . . . . . . 736--754
Arthur H. D. Acland Working Men's Co-operative Organizations
in Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--759
G. B. Longstaff The Present Population of the United
Kingdom, 1st April, 1886 . . . . . . . . 760--763
E. Fournier De Flaix The Increase of Shipping and Dock
Accomodation in the Principal Maritime
Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--776
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776--783
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 783--804
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--iii
Anonymous [Charter of] The Royal Statistical
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
L. L. F. R. Price ``Sliding Scales and Other Methods of
Wage-Arrangement in the North of
England'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--85
P. G. Craigie The Size and Distribution of
Agricultural Holdings in England and
Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--149
J. Shield Nicholson The Measurement of Variations in the
Value of the Monetary Standard . . . . . 150--166
Anonymous The Royal Statistical Society . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous The Imperial Institute . . . . . . . . . 167--169
Anonymous The Sixth International Congress of
Hygiene and Demography . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1886 169--180
Anonymous Prices of Commodities . . . . . . . . . 180--182
Anonymous The Decline of the French Population (A
translation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--197
Anonymous The Fires in London During the Year
1886, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 197--201
Anonymous English Literature in 1886 . . . . . . . 202--203
Anonymous International Statistical Institute . . 204--205
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--217
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 217--230
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
Noel A. Humphreys ``Class Mortality Statistics . . . . . . 255--292
Thomas Henry Elliott The Annual Taxes on Property and Income 293--325
Charles Booth The Inhabitants of Tower Hamlets (School
Board Division), Their Condition and
Occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--401
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1886 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--408
Anonymous Effects of Import Duties in New and Old
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--410
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--420
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 420--436
T. Graham Balfour Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1886, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 28th June,
1887, Presented at the Fifty-Third
Annual Meeting of the Royal Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms, 9,
Adelphi Terrace, Strand, London, on the
28th of June, 1887 . . . . . . . . . . . 437--449
Anonymous Proceedings of the Fifty-Third
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 450--457
Robert Lawson Remarks on the Mortality Among the
Troops Serving in the United Kingdom
from Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--494
Joseph Rabino The Statistical Story of the Suez Canal 495--546
Emile Levasseur The Tables of Mortality and Survivorship 547--569
Anonymous The Official Statistics of Japan . . . . 569--571
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--576
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 576--588
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 769--789
G. J. Goschen ``The Increase of Moderate Incomes;''
Being the Inaugural Address of the
President of the Royal Statistical
Society, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen,
M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Session 1887--88. Delivered 6th
December, 1887 at Willis's Rooms . . . . 589--612
Anonymous Proceedings on the 6th December, 1887 613--614
Robert Giffen ``The Recent Rate of Material Progress
in England'': The Address of the
President of Section F. --- Economic
Science and Statistics --- of the
British Association, at the
Fifty-Seventh Meeting, Held at
Manchester, September, 1887 . . . . . . 615--647
William Ogle Summary of Several Male Life Tables . . 648--652
A. E. Bateman Our Statistics of Foreign Trade, and
What They Tell Us . . . . . . . . . . . 653--658
Leone Levi On the Progress of Commerce and Industry
During the Last Fifty Years . . . . . . 659--668
Francois Bernard The World's Wheat Production . . . . . . 668--688
Anonymous The Population of China . . . . . . . . 688--696
Anonymous The Sixth International Congress of
Hygiene and Demography . . . . . . . . . 696--703
Anonymous The Abuse of Statistics . . . . . . . . 703--708
Anonymous Agricultural Returns for 1887 . . . . . 708--725
Anonymous Cattle and Dairy Farming of the World 725--726
Anonymous The Trade Improvements in 1887 . . . . . 726--727
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--744
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 745--768
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Anonymous Errata: Quantitation of Stock Exchange
Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
Juland Danvers Defects of English Railway Statistics 1--32
Benjamin Jones Progress, Organisation, and Aims of
Working Class Co-Operators . . . . . . . 33--73
Joseph G. Colmer Some Canadian Railway and Commercial
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--112
F. Y. Edgeworth The Mathematical Theory of Banking . . . 113--127
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1887 127--136
Anonymous Fires in London During the Year 1887,
and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade . . . 136--140
M. Arthur Raffalovich The Effects of Shipping Bounties . . . . 141--154
Augustus Sauerbeck Prices of Commodities in 1886 and 1887 154--157
Anonymous Distribution of Incomes in Germany . . . 158--161
Anonymous Unsuitable Subjects for Official
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Anonymous The Abuse of Statistics . . . . . . . . 162--163
Anonymous German Literature in 1886 and 1887 . . . 163--164
Anonymous English Literature in 1887 . . . . . . . 164--166
Anonymous American Literature in 1886 and 1887 . . 166--166
Anonymous The World's Big Ports . . . . . . . . . 167--169
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--186
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 186--200
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 201--224
R. H. Inglis Palgrave Progressive Taxation as Levied in
Switzerland. Cantons Basel-Stadt, de
Vaud, and Uri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--275
Charles Booth Condition and Occupations of the People
of East London and Hackney, 1887 . . . . 276--339
Leone Levi Professor Leone Levi, LL.D. . . . . . . 340--342
F. X. von Neumann-Spallart Dr. F. X. von Neumann-Spallart . . . . . 343--346
F. Y. Edgeworth Some New Methods of Measuring Variation
in General Prices . . . . . . . . . . . 346--368
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1887 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--375
Anonymous Relative Advantages of the Railways and
Waterways of Germany . . . . . . . . . . 375--396
Anonymous Statistics of the Russian Empire . . . . 396--398
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--414
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 414--432
C. M. Kennedy Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1887, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 26th June,
1888, Presented at the Fifty-Fourth
Annual General Meeting of the Royal
Statistical Society, Held at the
Society's Rooms, 9, Adelphi Terrace,
Strand, London, on the 26th of June,
1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--447
Anonymous Proceedings of the Fifty-Fourth Annual
General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--449
P. G. Craigie The English Poor Rate: Some Recent
Statistics of Its Administration and
Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--493
L. L. Price ``West Barbary;'' or, Notes on the
System of Work and Wages in the Cornish
Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--566
Arthur Ellis The ``Quantitation'' of Stock Exchange
Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--598
F. Y. Edgeworth The Statistics of Examinations . . . . . 599--635
Anonymous Statistics of Incomes in Prussia,
Saxony, and the United Kingdom . . . . . 635--649
Anonymous Agriculture and Prices in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 649--654
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654--664
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 664--682
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 855--877
T. Graham Balfour The Inaugural Address of Dr. T. Graham
Balfour, F.R.S., &c., Honorary Physician
to Her Majesty the Queen, President of
the Royal Statistical Society. Delivered
20th November, 1888 . . . . . . . . . . 683--700
Anonymous Proceedings on the 20th November, 1888 701--703
Lord Bramwell The Address of the President of Section
F --- Economic Science and Statistics
--- of the British Association, at the
Fifty-Eighth Meeting, Held at Bath, in
September, 1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--712
R. Giffen Recent Changes in Prices and Incomes
Compared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--815
Anonymous Report of a Committee with Reference to
the Census of 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . 816--818
Stephen Bourne Index Numbers as Illustrating the
Progressive Exports of British Produce
and Manufactures . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--823
Anonymous The Wages of the Working Classes in
Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--826
Anonymous Awards for Meritorious Discoveries and
Inventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826--827
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--838
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 838--854
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Richard Price-Williams The Coal Question . . . . . . . . . . . 1--46
R. H. Inglis Palgrave Local Government. On the Distribution of
the Licenses Proposed to be Transferred
in Aid of Local Expenditure . . . . . . 47--59
W. R. Sorley Mining Royalties and their Effect on the
Iron and Coal Trades . . . . . . . . . . 60--98
Jacob de Haas A Third Element in the Rate of Interest 99--116
A. Sauerbeck Prices of Commodities in 1887 and 1888 116--120
Anonymous Death Duties in Various Countries . . . 120--143
Anonymous Fires in London During the Year 1888,
and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade . . . 144--148
Anonymous English Literature in 1888 . . . . . . . 148--150
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--163
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 164--180
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 181--204
William Ogle The Alleged Depopulation of the Rural
Districts of England . . . . . . . . . . 205--240
E. G. Ravenstein The Laws of Migration . . . . . . . . . 241--305
Alfred Neymarck France, 1789--1889. An Economic
Centenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--338
Anonymous German Literature in 1887 and 1888 . . . 338--339
Anonymous Emigration and Immigration in the Year
1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--345
Anonymous The Coal Question: ``Bunker'' Coal
Consumed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--349
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--357
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 357--376
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1888, and for
the Sessional Year Ending 27th June,
1889, Presented at the Fifty-Fifth
Annual General Meeting of the Royal
Statistical Society, Held at the
Society's Rooms, 9, Adelphi Terrace,
Strand, London, on the 27th of June,
1889 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--395
Anonymous Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual
General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--398
Stephen Bourne On Variations in the Volume and Value of
Exports and Imports of the United
Kingdom in Recent Years . . . . . . . . 399--435
G. B. Longstaff Suggestions for the Census of 1891 . . . 436--467
Anonymous Sir Edwin Chadwick on an Annual Census 468--474
M. A. Neymarck The Value of Personal Property in France 475--493
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--500
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 501--516
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 631--642
T. Graham Balfour The Opening Address of Dr. T. Graham
Balfour, F.R.S., &c, Honorary Physician
to Her Majesty the Queen, President of
the Royal Statistical Society. Session
1889--90. Delivered 19th November, 1889 517--534
Anonymous Proceedings on the 19th November, 1889 535--537
F. Y. Edgeworth ``On the Application of Mathematics to
Political Economy.'' The Address of the
President of Section F --- Economic
Science and Statistics --- of the
British Association, at the Fifty-Ninth
Meeting, Held at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in
September, 1889 . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--576
Adolphe Coste The International Monetary Congress of
1889 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--595
Anonymous Public Sympathy v. Political Economy . . 595--604
Anonymous Directors of Joint Stock Companies . . . 604--604
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--611
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 611--630