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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
In laying before the members of the Institute of Actuaries this hasty sketch of the Progress of the Assurance of Life and Property on the Continent, I beg to offer a few words of explanation on what induced me to attempt it.
Understanding that several actuaries and managers of Foreign Assurance Companies were likely to be in England at this time, without any general acquaintance with, or means of introduction to, those who are engaged in similar pursuits and studies in this country, the council of the Institute were led to propose a general meeting and conference, and to offer to them the hospitality and attentions which, all classes and professions are vying with each other in paying to our distinguished foreign visitors.
page 293 note * This desideratum has been to a certain extent recently supplied by Mr. Edwin James Farren in his work on Life-Contingency Tables, and by Mr. Higham in two papers read by Mm before the Institute of Actuaries.—ED. A. M.
page 293 note † We have given the whole of Mr. Sang's observations on this Subject, rather for the sake of the suggestive character of the discussions in them, than for their practical utility. In a future number we hope to show methods by which the requirements of transactions such as those here referred to may be met with great simplicity and exactness.—ED. A. M.
page 303 note * The totals will be found to differ a little from those in Table II., the latter having been filled up from returns more recently collected.