See (in this Volume) SCIENCE AND INVENTION: RAILWAYS. BRIAND, Aristide: in the Ministry of France as Minister of Public Instruction and Public Worship. See (in this Volume) FRANCE: A. D. 1906. {51} BRIAND, Aristide: Prime Minister of France. See (in this Volume) FRANCE: A. D. 1909 (JULY). BRIAND, Aristide: On the French secular or neutral schools and the clerical attack on them. See (in this Volume) EDUCATION: FRANCE: A. D. 1909. BRENT, Bishop: Service on International Opium Commission and on Philippine Committee. See (in this Volume) Opium Problem. BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA: Its parts suitable for European Settlement. See (in this Volume) AFRICA. BRITISH COLUMBIA: A. D. 1901-1902. Census. Increased representation in Parliament. See (in this Volume) CANADA: A. D. 1901-1902. BRITISH EAST AFRICA: Its habitability by whites. See (in this Volume) AFRICA. ----------THE BRITISH EMPIRE: Start-------- THE BRITISH EMPIRE: A Census of the Empire. In March, 1906, a "Census of the British Empire"—the first ever undertaken—was published as a Parliamentary Blue Book. Its preparation had been proposed by Mr. Chamberlain, who suggested, while Colonial Secretary, that the figures of the census of the United Kingdom in 1901 should be collated with those of other portions of the empire, to be analyzed, tabulated, and published as a whole. A full realization of the plan of collation had been found impracticable, owing to the wide differences of circumstance and of the forms of census-taking in different parts of the Empire; but many summings up of highly interesting and important facts were obtained.