If this view of the process is correct, then one may add in closing that, as these occupation figures throw much light upon the causes, so the figures of an almost stationary death-rate for negroes compared with a rapidly decreasing death-rate for whites, and an apparently declining birth-rate for negroes compared with an actually increasing birth-rate for southern whites, are the best statistical keys to its effects. WALTER F. WILLCOX. Cornell University. FOOTNOTE: [Footnote 1: See especially Census Bulletin 8 entitled “Negroes in the United States,” Washington, 1904.] TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Census Statistics of the Negro, by Walter F. Willcox