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p 406

Adults Men Woman Total

[calculations not transcribed]

Sandwich Isd

[in margin:] Jarves

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Sandwich Isd

p 404 Under 14 years old

Kauai Kaii 1839

Boys Girls

[calculations not transcribed]

Oahu p 1840

[in margin:] Jarves

[Descent 2d ed., p. 257, n98: "This is given in the Rev. H. T. Cheever's 'Life in the Sandwich Islands,' 1851, p. 277.]

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Cheever p. 277. Census of 1850

♀ under 17 ♂ do question 5 places

[calculations not transcribed]

on the islands

Sandwich Islands

♀ all ages males do 5 places

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Official census of Sandwich Isd

Year

1832 130,313}

1836 108 579 annual decrease per cen} 4.409

1850   78,854 do} 2.259    

1866   58,765 do} 1.821 [insertion:] [illeg] 1/2 castes

1872   51,531          do} 2.128 [insertion:] (do)

Being a decrease of 60.01 per cent in 40 years.

The numbers given on the right are the annual decrease per cent supposing it to have been uniform between the periods at which the population is known.

[Descent 2d ed., p. 186.]

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Pop of Sandwich Isd

1823 — 140,000 (Bonwick p. 378) 9 years — 12,000

1823 Jarves (a same estimate) 142,050

1832 (Jarves) 130,313 — Simpson in 1843 says accurate census & gives same number. Jarves published in 1843.

1838 — 108,000 (Bonwick) — (Probably in error)

1836 Jarves 108,579 — (Simpson in 1843 gives the same date & figure)

1849 — 80,000 (Bonwick)

1850 (Cheever published in 1851) gives population for 1850 78,854

1853 71,000 (Bonwick)

1863 — 62,000 Bonwick

Jarves p. 400 cause of [depopulation]

p. 402 families of 3 taxes remitted

p. 407. Mortality decreasing — I daresay death [illeg], but not sterility

It may be that whenever conditions are unfavorable for pop. that more ♂ than ♀ are produced, but the foregoing facts seem to render it in some deeper [trouble] then we here see the result of ♀ [illeg]

(N.B a cross which gives fertility seem to eliminate the not-producing tendency)

[Descent 2d ed., pp. 186-193.]

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New Z. census Small population of ♀.

p. 24

25

26

30 Disproportion of the sexes expected 1830-1840 & have continued. Evidence of infanticide, chiefly ♀s.

33 — infanticide not common for many years do — but lately ceased.

36 — (do do to quote)

In Hawaii Bonwick The last of the Tasmanians 1870 p 378

There was 1/5 more men than women i.e. 100 ♂ to 80 ♀; the effects of [illeg], but I do not see how.

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New Zealand

no doubt 1858

p. 26 out of 1369 persons. 753 ♂ — 616 ♀

out of whole pop. less carefully examined of 56049

31,667 ♂ & 24,303 ♀

p 33 in 1858 55.63 ♂ — 44.37 ♀

p 36 in 1835 infanticide cens

p. 26 1844 non adult ♂ 281 non adult ♀194.

do in 1858 non adult ♂ 178 non adult ♀142.

[Descent 2d ed., pp. 186-193.]