THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, the son of Daniel Malthus, a
country gentleman living in Surrey, was born on Feb. 14,
1766. Entering Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1785, he was
9th Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1788; took
Holy Orders; and in 1797 was elected to a Fellowship at his
college. In 1805 he was appointed Professor of History
and Political Economy at the East India College at Hailey-
bury, a position which he retained until his death on Dec.
29, 1834. By his marriage in 1804 he had two daughters
and a son.

His Essay on the Principle of Population arose out of dis-
cussions with his father, -- who had been the executor of
Rousseau, -- over the opinions of William Godwin. In its
first form, as published in 1798, it was a small loosely
printed 8v0 of 396 pp.: about one-third of it is here
reprinted.

In its second form, as published in 1803, it was a 4tO of
604 pp., containing about four times as much matter: about
one-twentieth of it is here reprinted. The third edition
appeared in 1806, the fourth in 1807, the fifth in 1817, the
sixth in 1826. It was translated into German by Hegewisch
( 1807), and into French by Prévost ( 1809, 2nd ed.
1852).

The other writings of Malthus were, The High Price of
Provisions ( 1800), Observations on the Corn Laws, Grounds
of in Opinion on the Policy of restricting Importation, The
Nature and Progress of Rent ( 1814 and 1815), PoliticalEconomy

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