London, Sept. 4.
In the geography section of the British Association meeting at Not-bingham, Professor Fawcett of London discussed the changing distribution of the population.
The world average density, he said, was 40 persons a square mile, and this density was exceeded only in Europe, eastern North America, the Far Egst and India with Ceylon. In these four regions three-fourths of the world's present estimated population of 2,000,000,000 was to be found on little more than one-eighth of the total land area, During the twentieth century, the area of inhabited lands on the margins of all the four major populous regions had been increasing, and in North America this movement had perhaps overshot the climatic limits of good, cultivatable lands.
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