THE SHADOW OF
THE WORLD'S FUTURE

OR THE EARTH'S POPULATION POSSIBILITIES
&* THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PRESENT RATE
OF INCREASE OF THE EARTH’S INHABITANTS

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SIR GEORGE HANDLEY KNIBBS
C.M.G., F.R.A.S.
Sometime Acting Professor of Physics, University of Sydney
First Commonwealth Statistician, Australia
Formerly Director of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Member of the International Institute of Statistics
Honorary Member of the American Statistical Association, of the
Statistical Society of Paris, of the Statistical Society of Hungary, ete,

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