stands upon a different footing and is free from that disturbing factor; we shall therefore select that colony as a normal type of the Australian group.  In Part V.I.I. of the Statistical Register of the colony of Victoria for 1887, there is an excellent summary of the position of the colony with respect to crime.  The admirable manner in which these judicial statistics are arranged, reflects the highest credit on the colonial authorities; for fulness of information and clearness of arrangement they are not surpassed by any similar statistics in the world.  As homicide is the crime on which we have hitherto based our international comparisons, we shall, for the present, confine our attention to the Victorian statistics of this offence.

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Countries|Population|Years.|       Tried        |   Convicted
| over Ten.|      | Annual     Per     | Annual     Per
|          |      |Average 100,000     |Average   100,000
|          |      |        Inhabitants.|        Inhabitants.
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Victoria |   581,838|1882-6|   22       3.2     |   14       2.5
United
Kingdom  |26,594,582|1882-6|  505       2.35    |  226       .96
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Before proceeding to analysis the contents of this table, it will be as well to explain the method on which it has been constructed, and the sources from which it is derived.  The population of Victoria, over ten years of age, has been calculated according to the Victorian census for 1881, as contained in Part II. of the Victorian Statistical Register.  In order to make the Victorian table harmonise in all particulars with Dr. Bosco’s table for England, Scotland, and Ireland, the excess of births over deaths has been calculated up to the end of 1884.  The United Kingdom, it will be seen, has been selected as the measure of comparison with the colony of Victoria.  This selection has been made on the ground that the colony of Victoria is not composed of the inhabitants of any one of the three kingdoms, but contains a mixture of them all.  It will also be observed that the homicidal crime of each of the three kingdoms differs from the other, but this is a consideration which we shall not further comment upon at present.

After these preliminary explanations we are now in a position to examine the contents of our statistical table in its bearing upon crimes of blood.  It will now be possible to see what light the criminal statistics of Victoria, as compared with the criminal statistics of the United Kingdom, throw upon these crimes; and the disturbing factor of race being eliminated, what is the influence of climate pure and simple upon them.  According to the isotherms for the year the Victorians live in an atmosphere between eight and ten degrees hotter than our own.  Side by side with this additional heat, there is, as compared