From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]1
Naval College | Greenwich.
This seems to point to some error in the census of 18532 The an-decrease percent from 1850 to 1860 is 2.01—much more in accordance with the other results. The population given for 1853 is more likely that for 1858— is the date right.3
—4.6 | |
1836 | |
—1.97 | |
1850 | |
—2.01 | |
1860 | |
—2.06 | |
1866 | |
—2.10 |
The 4.6 seems the only one out of the series
L Darwin
CD annotations
Year | Native Population | Annual percentage Decrease done (4.6)✓ |
1832 | 130,313 | — |
1836 | 108,579 | 1.969= 1.97 |
1850 | 82,203 | 4.759 |
1853 | 71,019 | 0.81✓ |
1860 | ✓67,084 | 2.18 |
1866 | ✓58,765 | done (2.17) |
1872 | 51,531 |
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.
Summary
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8709
- From
- Leonard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Naval College, Greenwich
- Source of text
- DAR 90: 8
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8709,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8709.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22