Bulletin.

Report on the Competition for the Annual Prize, 1890-The North African Routes to the Sudan-From Lima to Iquitos-The Resources of Central Asia as a Field for Russian Colonization-Notes on Tibet-The Telegraphic Conference at Paris on the Subject of the Universal Hour.

ROME.-Società Geografica Italiana.

Captain Casati at Rome-Itinerary in Somaliland -Area of the Inhabited Earth according to Strabo The Italian Emigrant's Guide to Chile Legend of the Jurupary—The Somali. Galla and Harari Spoken Tongues-Letter from Dr. Traversi-Two Excursions in the Dembelas Country (Ethiopia)-Ethnographic Study on the Population of the Caucasus. VIENNA.-Mittheilungen der Kais. Konigl. Geographischen Gesellschaft.

The Highland of Ulnia or Zeitun, (Eastern Cilicia) -The Southern Watering-Places on the Austrian Coast-The Subterranean Water-Courses of Carniola-The Panama Canal CompanyThe Profit of the Sumatra Coal Fields—The Date (Time Reckoning) in the Philippines. WASHINGTON-National Geographic Magazine. The Arctic Cruise of the U. S. S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889-The Law of Storms, Considered with Special Reference to the North Atlantic-The Irrigation Problem in Montana.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 20, 1890.

THE UNITED STATES CENSUS.-The population of
the United States (Alaska and whites in Indian Terri-
tory excepted), as finally determined, November 25,Fis
62,622,250; a difference of 141,710 from the statement
of October 28. The enumerations are:

Statistics are not yet available for exhibiting the sources of abnormal increment in some of the States.

The average increase of population in the north and south Atlantic divisions from 1880 to 1890 is 18 per cent.; in the northern and southern central divisions, 25.65 per cent., and in the western division 70.22 per cent.; or, combining the northern and southern central with the western division, 40.52 per cent.

In the decade from 1870 to 1880 the average increase was in the north and south Atlantic divisions, 23.87 per cent., in the northern and southern central divisions, 36.19 per cent., and in the western division, 78.46 per cent.; or, combining the three latter, 50.28

per cent.

The absolute increase of the population between 1880 and 1890 was 12,466,467, and the percentage of increase was 24.85. Between 1870 and 1880 the percentage of increase was 30.08. In explanation of this unfavorable, or, popularly speaking, disappointing showing, the Superintendent of the census claims that the census of 1870 was inaccurately taken in the southern States, and that the total population at that date was at least 40,000,000, instead of 38,558,371. Mr. Walker, who was Superintendent of the census of 1880, made a statement at the recent meeting of the National Academy of Sciences regarding the probable amount of error in the enumeration of the colored people of the South in 1870. From the best figures he could obtain, he said it was far from being 1,500,000 out of the way, or even a large proportion of that sum. By a series of computations he explained that the true figures would be between 5,200,000 and 5,400,000, instead of 4,880,000

as returned, and the probable error, therefore, between 320,000 or 520,000, instead of 1,500,000.

The relative rank and changes of rank from 1880 are as follows:

1890.

1. New York.

2. Pennsylvania.

3. Illinois.

4. Ohio.

5. Missouri,

6. Massachusetts.
7. Texas.

8. Indiana.

9. Michigan.

10. Iowa.

11. Kentucky.
12. Georgia.

13. Tennessee.

14. Wisconsin.

15. Virginia.

16. North Carolina.

17. Alabama.

18. New Jersey.

19. Kansas.

20. Minnesota.

21. Mississippi.

1880.

1. New York.

2. Pennsylvania.

3. Ohio.

4. Illinois.
5. Missouri.

6. Indiana.

7. Massachusetts.

8. Kentucky.

9. Michigan.

10. Iowa.

II. Texas.

12. Tennessee. 13. Georgia.

14. Virginia.

15. North Carolina.

16. Wisconsin.
17. Alabama.

18. Mississippi.
19. New Jersey.

20. Kansas.

21. South Carolina.