Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database

The 1831 census database is the newest addition to the series of 19th century Canadian census microdata available for social science research, thanks to a collaboration between the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) and FamilySearch. This article presents the work undertaken to prepare this database and the main challenges encountered in the course of this work. While the data extracted from the 1831 census are an invaluable tool for demographic research, particularly on account of the agricultural and industrial questions included in this census, cleaning these data have required particular attention to the age-sex-marital status tallies of the household co-residents. Additional efforts were devoted to integrating missing data for Montréal’s Notre-Dame parish and for other parishes.     

Early farming in Europe 1

Barker, Graeme. Prehistoric Farming in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xviii + 327 pp. including illustrations, bibliography, and site and general indices. $44.50 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Whittle, Alasdair. Neolithic Europe: A Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xiv + 363 pp. including illustrations, select bibliography, and index. $44.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.     

Drugs of the future; drugs of the past

Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Man's Health. Walter H. Lewis and Memory P.F. Elvin‐Lewis. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1977. xv ‐ 515 pp. Index, illustrations. $29.50     

Henry Longueville Mansel and the origins of agnosticism

Abstract

The central theme of John Locke's Of the Conduct of the Understanding is human error. The Conduct was conceived as an additional chapter to An Essay concerning Understanding, but it was never finished and published posthumously in 1706 as a separate work. Modern authors have regarded the Conduct as an educational treatise. Indeed, the analysis in this work of the nature and causes of error and the ways to prevent and remedy error gives rise to numerous educational reflections. However, the aim of the present article is to show that these views should be understood within the specific epistemological context of a two-stage analysis of ideas, the first stage consisting of individual ideas that should all be clear and distinct, and the second stage consisting of reasonings based on combinations of these ideas. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.