王树枬等编纂的《新疆图志》是新疆建省后第一部较完备的志书,对研究新疆近代历史具有重要的参考价值。但非出自一人之手,体例先后未能一定,记事亦有分歧。有些统计数字相互矛盾,给研究工作带来一定的困难,但也提供了互相对照,予以核实的途径。这里仅就新疆人口数字,做些核实订正工作。 《新疆图志》中共三卷涉及到人口问题: The “Map of Xinjiang” compiled by Wang Shufan and others is the first complete compilation of records after the founding of Xinjiang, which is of great reference value for the study of Xinjiang’s modern history. But not from one’s hand, the body has failed to certain, notes also have differences. Some of the statistics are contradictory to each other, which brings some difficulties to the research work, but also provides a way of verifying and verifying each other. Here only the population of Xinjiang, to do some verification of the revision. Three volumes of the “Illustrated in Xinjiang” Communist Party address the issue of population: