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THE student of population problems has received recently many additions to his library, and the appearance of yet another volume might fail to arouse interest unless it contained new facts or presented the known facts in a fresh light. Prof. Raymond Pearl's book on “The Natural History of Population” may justifiably claim to do both. Although some preliminary results of the researches which are described have been published in reports of the Milbank Memorial Fund, no comprehensive account of the work which formed the basis of the author's Heath Clark Lectures in London in 1937 has been available hitherto, and it is to be welcomed.
The Natural History of Population
By Raymond Pearl. (University of London: Heath Clark Lectures, 1937, delivered at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.) Pp. xii + 416. (London: Oxford University Press, 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Natural History of Population. Nature 144, 55 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144055a0
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