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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
page 3 note * It is understood, however, that the method has never been applied in practice.
page 7 note * Ralph P. Hardy and G. F. Hardy were not related.
page 7 note † J.I.A., vol. xxvii, page 161.
page 8 note * See his Review of Pearson’s “Chances of Death” (J.I.A., vol. xxxiii, p. 530 (1898)).
page 9 note * See the Memorandum as to the two-life Tables appended to the Annuitants’ Tables; also an important paper by Mr. T. G. Ackland (Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries, Vol. III, p. 285) which is perhaps not sufficiently widely known.
page 13 note * In a letter printed in the Academy (1069) 29 October 1892 and reprinted in the Insurance Record of 15 January 1915 he presented "a chain of astronomical evidence proving the commencement of the IVth Dynasty to have been very approximately 3700 B.C.” The present writer does not know whether the evidence and results have ever been properly considered by Egyptologists ; but it is interesting to note that the date given, circa 3700 B.C., is nearly midway between the widely-differing dates given by the most modern investigators, namely, 2700–2840 B.C. by one set of authorities and 4731 B.C. by Flinders Petrie (see Encycl. Brit., 11th Edition, volume ix, p. 79). Hardy’s letter shows his intimate knowledge both of practical Astronomy and of Egyptology, and his most interesting line of argument seems to the non-expert very convincing, especially in view of the consistency of the results derived from independent data.
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