fair to the other less healthy cities to be branded without the chance to get at the real facts in the case. The writer has no sympathy with attempts to mislead the public by juggling with the death returns. Minneapolis is a comparatively healthy city when judged by its annual death-rate as calculated by the standard methods. Whether it is or is not "the healthiest city in the United States" is a matter of some doubt and less importance. Other cities could doubtless materially improve their published death-rates if, as we hope they will not, they were to copy the fallacious methods used by the Commissioner of Health of Minneapolis. F. S. CRUM. A LIST OF RECENT STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS.* BY THOMAS J. HOMER. I. THEORY AND METHOD. BENEDUCE, ALBERTO. Rassegna del movimento scientifico. Discusses the recent work of Karl Pearson, Wm. Palin Elderton, and BENINI, RODOLFO. Principii di statistica metodologica. Torino: Reviewed in the Giornale degli economisti, ser. 2, vol. 32, p. 586. Rome. BERTILLON, JACQUES. Curso elemental de estadística administrativa. Obra ajustada al programa acordado por el Consejo superior de estadística para el examen de ingreso en las diversas oficinas públicas. Traducido por Antonio Revenga. Madrid: Reus. 1907. 635 pp. BOWLEY, ARTHUR LYON. Elements of statistics. 3d edition. London: King. 1908. 348 pp. 8°. BRUNS, ERNST HEINRICH. Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Kollektivmasslehre. Leipzig: Teubner. 1906. viii, 328 pp. 8°. Deals with the "doctrine of collective quantities"; and discusses the representation of statistical frequency by a series. CARONCINI, ALBERTO. Note di metodo sulla statistica degli scioperi. (In Giorn. d. econ. for Dec., 1905, and Jan., 1906.) CONFERENCE [8TH] OF STATISTICIANS OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND STATES OF AUSTRALIA AND COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND. MELBOURNE, NOV. AND DEC., 1906. Australasia. Unification of Australasian statistical methods and co-ordination of the work of the Commonwealth and State Bureaus. Melbourne: Kemp. 1906. 73 pp. Fol. Rev. in Royal Statistical Society. Journal. Vol. 70, p. 663. See also p. 582. This list, which will be continued in the December issue, does not pretend to be exhaustive or critical; but it is hoped that it may prove serviceable for purposes of reference. The several other classes of statistical publications will be dealt with in future numbers. CONTENTO, ALDO. La statistica del movimento migratorio e il calcolo dell' aumento della popolazione. (In Giorn. d. econ., Rome, for Nov., 1906.) DILKE, CHARLES W. [On official statistics.] Presidential address (Royal Statistical Society). (In Roy. Stat. Soc. Journal, vol. 70, pp. 553-582. London.) "A plea for co-ordination of official statistics and statistical methods." EDGEWORTH, F. Y. On the representation of statistical frequency by a series. (In R. S. S. Journal, vol. 70, pp. 102106. 1907.) On the probable errors of frequency-constants. (In R. S. S. Journal, vol. 71, pp. 381-397. 1908.) To be continued. ELDERTON, WILLIAM PALIN. Frequency-curves and correlation. Published for the Institute of Actuaries. London: Layton. [1906.] xiii, 172 pp. 8°. Books, references, etc., pp. 163–165. Rev. in R. S. S. Journal, vol. 70, p. 132. FORNASARI DI VERCE, E. Statistiche agrarie; studio di metodologia statistica. (In Giorn. d. econ., Rome, for Sept. and Oct., 1906.) GRYZANOVSKI, ERNST G. F. On collective phenomena and the scientific value of statistical data. (In American Economic Association. Publications. 3d ser., vol. 7, no. 3. 1906.) With an introduction by Frederick Tuckerman. JACQUART, CAMILLE. Statistique et science sociale. Aperçus généraux. (Conférences données à l'Institut supérieur de philosophie de Louvain.) Bruxelles: Desclée, De Brouwer & Cie. 1907. 120 (1) pp. 16°. JAECKEL, REINHOLD. Zur Bevölkerungsstatistik und Bevölkerungswissenschaft. (Unter Zugrundelegung der neueren Literatur.) 1907. 45 pp. 8°. KAPTEYN, JACOBUS CORNELIUS. Statistical methods in stellar astronomy. Diagrams. (In Congress of Arts and Science. ... St. Louis, 1904. Vol. 4, pp. 396-425. Boston. 1906.) KNIBBS, GEORGE HANDLEY. The classification of disease and causes of death, from the standpoint of the statistician. Melbourne: Intercolonial Medical Journal. 1907. 24 pp. 8°. Rev. in R. S. S. Journal, vol. 70, p. 662. The author is "Commonwealth Statistician." LAURENT, HERMANN. Statistique mathématique. Paris: Doin. 1908. vi, 272 pp. 8°. Rev. in R. S. S. Journal, vol. 71, p. 406. MALLET, BERNARD. A method of estimating capital wealth from the estate duty statistics. (In R. S. S. Journal, vol. 71, pp. 65-84. 1908.) MICHEL, E. Statistiques et monographie. Lecture à l'Association normande (Congrès de Bayeux, 1906). Caën: Delesques. 1907. 11 pp. Tables. 8°. NINA, L. Principî fondamentali di statistica. Turin: Bocca. 1907. 182 pp. 8°. PEARSON, KARL. On further methods of determining correlation. London: Dulau. 1907. 39 pp. 4°. Rev. in R. S. S. Journal, vol. 70, p. 655. 313 pp. 16°. 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Washington. 1906. xviii, 1144 pp. A special supplementary report on the 12th Census, prepared under the supervision of Walter F. Willcox, an analysis and interpretation of statistics (particularly those of population) contained in the main reports. WEBB, Mrs. SIDNEY. [Methods of investigation.] (In Sociological papers. Published for the Sociological Society. Vol. iii. London. 1907.) Briefly discusses "the function of statistical method in sociology." WELLS, FREDERIC LYMAN. Statistical study of literary merit, with remarks on some new phases of the method. New York: Science Press. 1907. 30 pp. Diagrams. 8°. ZIMMERMAN, FRIEDRICH W. R. Die deutsche Handelsstatistik in ihre geschichtlichen Entwickelung und ihrem derzeitigen Stand. (In Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. ALLGEMEINES STATISTISCHES Semi-a. = = W. Y. = = Semi-annually. ARCHIV. Herausgegeben Georg von Mayr. Tübingen. Semi-a. 1890+ von AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION. Boston. Publications. N. s. Q. 1888+. 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