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page 2 note * Vide the first number of The Liberal, edited by Leigh Hunt. Among the chief poems of Isaac Gompertz may be specified “The Modern Antique,” “Time, or Light and Shade,” “Devon,” &c.
page 2 note † Vide Baker's, T. Formulæ, Rules, and Examples. Weale, 1862 Google Scholar.
page 2 note ‡ Theoretical Discourse on the Nature and Properly of Money. Richardson, 1820. An Essay on Currency; 1829. An Attempt at an Analysts of the Currency and the Merits of the Bank of England; 1830.
page 2 note ǁ Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and Brutes. London, 1824. Also Fragment in defence of animals.
page 3 note * Philosophical Transactions. Part 1, 1862, p 513
page 4 note * Vide article “Commercium Epistolieum,” in the Penny Cyclopædia.
page 4 note † He uses 
for the common logarithm, 
for the Napierian logarithm of a number; also for the common anti-logarithm, and for the Napierian anti-logarithm.
page 8 note * See Littrow's paper “ On the correction of the transit instrument”: Astronomical Transactions, vol. i., p. 275. Also Kreil's paper “On the use of the equatorial,” vol. iv., p. 501.
page 10 note * Vide Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for November 8, 1844.
page 12 note * Vide Philosophical Transactions for 1825, p 526.
page 12 note † Philosophical Transactions, 1788, 1789, 1791, 1794, and 1799.
page 12 note ‡ The Doctrine of Life Annuities and Assurances, chap. viii.
page 13 note * The Athenæum, July 22, 1865.
page 13 note † Tables of Mortality derived from the Experience of the Amicable Society, by Thomas Galloway. Life Contingency Tables, by E. J. Farren. Rates of Premium, for Assurances of Military Officers in Bengal, by Charles Jellicoe; Assurance Mag, vol. i., p. 166. Mortality prevailing in Eagle Insurance Company, by Charles Jellicoe; Ass. Mag., vol. iv., p. 199. Mortality prevailing in Royal Insurance Company, by Percy M. Dove.
page 14 note * Annuities on Lives, by Moivre, Abraham De. London, 1727.Google Scholar
page 14 note † , Gaeta and , Fontana: Dottrina degli azzardi. Milano, 1776.Google Scholar
page 14 note ‡ Philosophical Transactions, 1826, Part III.
page 14 note ǁ See Note by Mr. Gray, Peter: Assurance Magazine, vol. vi., p. 185.Google Scholar
page 14 note § Professor , Littrow: Ueber Lebensversicherungen und andere Versorgungsanstalten. Vienna, 1832; p. 52.Google Scholar
page 14 note ¶ Dr. Moser, Ludwig: Die Gesetze der Lebensdauer. Berlin, 1839; p. 315.Google Scholar
page 14 note ** Assurance Magazine, vol. viii., p. 301; and vol. xii,, p. 315.
page 15 note * Mr. T. R. Edmonds, in the Philosophical Magazine for January, 1866, professes to give a new expression for the law of human mortality, derived from analogy with the law of density of saturated steam. The question of the accuracy or novelty of this law does not concern us. "We regret, however, that when speaking of his old formula, he omits making any mention of, much less doing justice to the subject of our Memoir. It is a noteworthy circumstance, that Mr. Edmonds, in the course of the paper, no longer insists upon the fact that life is made up of three periods–infancy, florescence, and senescence; but contends for two periods of life only–childhood and manhood.
page 15 note † Vide Penny Cyclopnædia, art. “Mortality”; Philosophical Magazine, Nov., 1839; Assurance Magazine, vol. viii., p. 181.
page 16 note * Vide Minutes of Evidence before the Select Parliamentary Committee on the laws respecting Friendly Societies, 1827.
page 16 note † Principles of Algebra. London, 1796.
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