*JAMES HARDY. A Complete System of interest and annuities, founded upon new, easy and rational principles; containing the whole business of interest and annuities for a fixed time, in perpetuity, or depending on single lives or any number of joint or successive lives either in possession or reversion, with a great variety of questions; to which is prefixed an introduction and application of decimals, etc. : Useful for landed and monied men, lawyers, stewards, and all such as have any concern with annuities. 172 pp. 12o. London, 1753.

The questions are wrought out in numbers at length, and the annuities are calculated from the expectation of life severally as given by HALLEY, DEMOIVRE and SIMPSON.

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CHARLES BRAND. A Treatise on assurances and annuities on lives; with several objections against Dr. Price's Observations on the Amicable Society and others. To which is added a short, easy, and more concise method of calculating the value of annuities and assurances on lives than any heretofore published. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1775.

M. DE PARCIEUX (neveu). Traité des Annuités. 1 vol. 4° Paris, 1781.

JOHN NICOLAS TETENS.

Einleitung zur Berechnung der

Leibrenten und Anwartschaften die vom leben and tode einer oder mehrerer personen abhangen, mit tabellen zum practischen gebrauch. 954 pp. 2 vols. 8°. Leipzig, 1785. This is an extensive and thorough mathematical treatise on life contingencies. The author anticipated BARRETT in the mutually independent discovery of the method of forming commutation columns, a discovery which at once totally revolutionized the practice of calculating life annuities. Nevertheless while Mr. BARRETT's discovery was being applied in England, the prior work of Prof. TETENS remained entirely unknown beyond the home of its publication, until rescued from comparative oblivion by Mr. HENDRIKS in the first number of the Assurance Magazine, London,

1850. Exclusive of two specimen tables (pp. 89 & 217), one for single and one for two joint lives, in exemplification of his new method, there is appended to this learned and admirable treatise 31 practical tables from SUSSMILCH, PRICE, WARGENTIN, DEPARCIEUX, etc.

JOHN HEYSHAM. An abridgment of Observations on the

bills of mortality in Carlisle, from the year 1779 to year 1787 inclusive. 1 vol. 4°. Carlisle, 1793.

FRANCIS BAILY. Tables for the purchasing and rer ..ag of leases for terms of years certain, and for lives with an appendix. 2d edition. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1807.

JOHN CLARK. An Enquiry into the nature and value of leasehold property, reversionary interest in estates, and life

annuities; with a variety of tables. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1808.

JEREMIAH JOYCE. Arithmetic of real life and business; including a complete reformation of all the tables of weights and measures, the calculation of annuities, leases, estates, lives, stocks, etc., and more examples under every rule than are to be fouud in any other book of the kind; with a key. 1 vol. 12o. London, 1808.

WILLIAM CAMPBELL. The Value of Annuities from 17. to 1000l. per annum, on single lives, from the age of one to ninety years; with the number of years' purchase each annuity is worth, and the rate of interest the purchase receives. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1810.

JEROME COUNT DE SALIS. A Proposal for improving the system of friendly societies, or of poor assurance offices; and, by increasing their funds, rendering in process of time, on the principle of accumulation, all parochial taxation for the relief of the poor unnecessary. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1814.

FRANCIS BAILY.

The Doctrine of Life Annuities and Assurances analytically investigated and practically explained, together with tables and appendix. 1st edition. 1810. 2d edition. 2 vols. 8°. 1818. Scarce. London.

FRANCIS BAILY. The Doctrine of Interest and Annuities analytically investigated and explained, together with useful tables. 1 vol. 4°. 1814. London.

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*FRANCIS BAILY. The Doctrine of life annuities and assurances, analytically investigated and practically explained, together with several useful tables connected with the subject; to which is now added an appendix containing a new method of calculating and arranging such tables. 730 pp. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1813.

It

This is the pirated edition alluded to by M. FILIPOWSKI in the
preface to his new edition of the same work. It is supposed
to have been printed in Dublin, and purposely antedated.
is badly printed, and ought to be very seldom met with.
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*JOSHUA MILNE. A Treatise on the Valuation of Annuities and Assurances on lives and survivorships, on the construction of tables of mortality, and on the probabilities and expectations of life; wherein the laws of mortality that prevail in different parts of Europe are determined, and the comparative mortalities of different diseases and of the two sexes are shown: with a variety of tables. 840 pp. in 2 vols. 8°. London, 1815. The titlepage itself is a succinct synopsis of the contents of the work. The author held a long and honorable career in the science of life contingencies, which is much indebted to him for improvements in treatment and notation. His authority rules up to the present moment.

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*WILLIAM ROUSE. The Doctrine of Chances, or the theory of gaming made easy to persons acquainted with common arithmetic, so as to enable them to calculate the probabilities of events in lotteries, cards, horse-racing, dice, etc.; with several tables on chance never before published, which from mere inspection will solve a great variety of questions. 300 pp. 1 vol. 8°. London (no date), 1814?

A curious book, containing the announcement and solution of ninety problems and many games. The author aims to guard the novice against incurring the hazards of gaming, by showing the expectations in each individual play.

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*J. CLARK. Observations on the Nature of annuities, life insurances, endowments for children, and investment of money for accumulation; with a general outline of the plan, laws and regulations of the European Life Insurance Company. To which is annexed a slight sketch of the differ ence between income derived from annuities, and that obtained in perpetuity from legal interest. 70 pp. 12°. 1 vol. London, 1818.

The tract was written and published with a view to improve the business interests of the European.

WILLIAM TATE.

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The Calculations of life annuities and

the public funds simplified and explained; forming an introduction to the most intricate business of the stock exchange. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1819.

*WILLIAM MORGAN. The Principles and Doctrine of assurances, annuities on lives, and contingent reversions, stated and explained. 342 pp. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1821.

An elaborate treatise: Contains tables based on Northampton mortality, at 3, 4, 5 and 6 per cent, for single lives, and for two and three joint lives and survivorships; also several tables on Swedish mortality, etc. The author was severely criticised by FRANCIS BAILY:

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BENWELL. An Essay on interest and annuities; chiefly respecting those cases when compounded by instalments, intercepted within yearly, as quarterly, half-yearly, momently; embracing a summary of the ambiguities averred of the solutions on PRICE's and DEMOIVRE'S principles, with a critical examination into the source of them. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1821.

WILLIAM HENDRY. Method of Calculating the value of life annuities, assurances, fines payable on the renewing of leases, etc., for terms of years certain and for lives. 2d edition. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1825.

EDWARD HULLEY. Tables showing the values of annuities and assurances upon lives of equal ages, in single and annual payments, according to the Northampton table of mortality, at three per cent. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1828.

J. J. DUNCAN. Tables of the probability and expectation of male and female life in Glasgow, and of the value of annuities on single lives at all ages, at 3, 4, 5 and 6 per cent; deduced from the Glasgow population and mortality bills, on an average of six years from 1821 to 1827. 1 vol. 8o. Glasgow, 1829.

ROBERT RANKIN. A Familiar Treatise on life assurance and annuities; containing a historical sketch of the science, with observations on the duration of human life, etc.; to which are appended original tables of the probabilities and expectations of life in the city of Bristol. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1830.

HECTOR D. MORGAN. The experience and method of providing assurances for the poor, and of adopting the improved constitution of friendly societies, upon principles calculated

to

ensure their stability and prevent their insolvence.

1 vol. 8°. Oxford, 1830.

FREDERICK BLAYNEY.

A Practical Treatise on Life Assurance; in which the statutes and judicial decisions affecting unincorporated joint-stock companies are briefly considered and explained, including remarks on the different systems of life institutions, the premiums charged, and the increased expectations of human life; to which is added a comparative view of the various systems and practice of assurance offices, with useful and interesting tables, etc. 1st edition, 1818. 2d edition. 254 pp. 1 vol. 12°. London, 1837. In addition to an interesting historical sketch of the early English companies, a considerable portion of this neat little volume is occupied with a discussion of the relations which should obtain between provident institutions and the courts of law, with an account of legal difficulties which have been presented for adjudication. Insurance Department Library.

*GEORGE FARREN. A Treatise on Life Assurance, in which the systems and practice of the leading life institutions are stated and explained, and the statutes and judicial determinations affecting such institutions brought under review; with an appendix of cases, including arguments particularly relating to the formation of trading joint-stock companies. 208 pp. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1823.

A judicious criticism on life assurance as practised in England half a century ago, is followed by an extensive collection of trials and decisions in questions involving life interests, etc. Insurance Department Library.

*GRIFFITH DAVIES. A Treatise on Annuities, with numerous tables based on the experience of the Equitable Society and the Northampton rate of mortality. 520 pp. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1825.

This excellent work treats in a very thorough and practical manner the several questions of the improvement of money, the method of deducing rates of mortality, the construction of tables of life annuities, etc. The author did not live to complete his contemplated treatise on life assurance, which would have been complementary to the present one on life annuities. Insurance Department Library.

CHARLES BABBAGE. A Comparative View of the various institutions for the assurance of lives. 230 pp. 1 vol. 8°. London, 1826.

The work gives a popular and admirable explanation of the nature and objects of life assurance. An appendix recites some important legal decisions, expounds an algebraical formula for the calculation of annuities, and presents a list of thirteen tables for assurance purposes.

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