Show The Depopulation of Northern Regions Re-gions The last census of Russia says Dr U G Brlnton In Science July 19th showed that its northern province Ar changelsk had lost over ten thousand of its already sparse population within a decade not from any general or violent vio-lent causebut from the Independent migration mi-gration of families to more genial climes toward the South Mr H C Bryant and other Arctic travelers assure as-sure me that there is no doubt about the advancing extinction of the natives of the extreme north of America and Greenland Dr A Jacoby In the Archly 1 Ar-chly fur Anthropologic for November last draws a painful picture of the degeneration I de-generation and disappearance of the Samoycds and other boreal tribes of Siberia Nearly everywhere the arctic and subarctic zones have fewer Inhabitants Inhab-itants than a half century ago The general causes are obvious One Is the destruction of the native tribes by the Introduction of new modes of life new diseases alcohol and Idleness another is tho removal of all who can go to climates of less severity The arctic regions like mountains were not originally orig-inally chosen by preference as home but were the refuges of conquered and dispersed bands Now that the pressure pres-sure Is removed such Inhospitable climes will certainly be occupied less and less The center of gravity of the population of the earth tends more and more to fix Itself between I the Isother mals of 40 degrees and CO degrees we might even say 45 degrees and C5 degrees de-grees Neither tropic nor subarctic countries offer the prizes which the masses of the human race now long for |