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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Demography; originally, vital statistics, now expanded in meaning to denote the statistical study of population in extent, density, and composition.
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There is promise that, as the demology of aboriginal America is pushed forward, the records relating to the Siouan Indians and especially to their structure and institutions will aid in explaining why some stocks are limited and others extensive, why large stocks in general characterize the interior and small stocks the coasts, and why the dominant peoples of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were successful in displacing the preexistent and probably more primitive peoples of the Mississippi valley.
The Siouan Indians 1882
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