The necessity, for administrative or other purposes, of tabulating separately the returns for so many cross-divisions of the country constitutes one of the main difficulties of the English census operations, more particularly as the boundaries of these areas are frequently altered.
By means of a well-organized chain of tabulating centres, the preliminary totals, by sexes, of the 294 millions enumerated in 1901 were given to the public within a fortnight of the census, and differed from the final results by no more than 94,000, or 03%.
Bohmer's historical work was chiefly concerned with collecting and tabulating charters and other imperial documents of the middle ages.
On the basis of the principles stated above, the most obvious method of tabulating the observations would be to give the values E t of the E.M.F.