Knibbs, The shadow of the world’s future, or The earth’s population 1928 RARE !

Knibbs, George Handley.
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. London, Ernest Benn Limited (1928). 8°. 131 S.
Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgepr. Rückentitel.

Äußerst seltene erste Ausgabe der
wichtigen Arbeit des australisch-britischen Physikers und ersten
Statistikers des Commonwealth Sir George Handley Knibbs (1858-1929). –
Knibbs (gen. „the Knibb“) war der erste Direktor des 1916 gegründeten
Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry (CSIRO) in Canberra. –
„During World War I Knibbs was on the Royal Commission dealing with
problems of trade and industry, and was a consulting member of the
committee on munitions of war. In 1920 Knibbs played a leading role at
the British Empire Statistical Conference in London. In March 1921 he
was made director of the newly founded Institute of Science and
Industry, a forerunner to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation (CSIRO). At the 1921 meeting of the Australasian
Association for the Advancement of Science Knibbs was president of the
Social and Statistical Science Section, and took as the subject of his
address „Statistics in regard to World and Empire development“. Two
years later he was president of the association and spoke on „Science
and its service to man“. Knibbs resigned his directorship of the
Institute of Science and Industry in 1926, and lived in retirement until
his death of coronary vascular disease at Camberwell, Victoria, a
suburb of Melbourne, on 30 March 1929. … He contributed 29 papers to the
Royal Society of New South Wales, and several of his monographs,
largely on statistical subjects (The Mathematical Theory of Population,
The Census of Wealth), were published as pamphlets; also monographs on
pure mathematics, geodesy, and geodetical instruments. In 1913 he
published a volume of verse, Voices of the North and Echoes of Hellas,
largely translations, carefully written but not important as poetry, and
in 1928 appeared a work on population, The Shadow of the World’s
Future. He also published Design of the Federal Capital“ (Wikipedia). –
Stempel auf dem Titelblatt, sehr gutes sauberes Exemplar.
Extremely
rare first edition of the important work by the Australian-British
physicist and first statistician of the Commonwealth, Sir George Handley
Knibbs (1858-1929). Knibbs (known as ‘the Knibb’) was the first
director of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry (CSIRO)
in Canberra, founded in 1916. – Stamp on the title page, very good clean
copy.