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THE Geographical Association held its annual T meetings on Jan. 6–8 at the London School of Economics. The address of the president, Sir Charles Close, on “Population and Migration,” gave a statistical investigation of world population with special reference to the development of the British Dominions. The tendency of population growth, indicated by graphs of census returns, gives some foundation for a forecast of the future. Within threequarters of a century from 1875, England will probably pass from the period of highest birth-rate-36 per 1000-to a stationary condition in which birthrate and death-rate will balance. Any migration policy must take this tendency into consideration, as well as the absorption rate in the Dominions, estimated at 5 per 1000. This at present would give about 100,000 per annum, excluding the quota to the United States. It is a corollary of this population movement that the dissemination of geographical knowledge of the regions of the world must occupy an increasingly important position in education.
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The Geographical Association. Nature 119, 142–143 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119142a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119142a0