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Institute and Faculty of Actuaries ERRATUM: Report of the Industrial Assurance Commissioner for the year ended 31 December 1927 Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (1886-1994), Vol. 60, No. 2 (JULY 1929), p. 239 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41138370 . Accessed: 22/06/2014 06:58 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Cambridge University Press and Institute and Faculty of Actuaries are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (1886-1994). http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 188.72.126.182 on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 06:58:14 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

ERRATUM: Report of the Industrial Assurance Commissioner for the year ended 31 December1927Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (1886-1994), Vol. 60, No. 2 (JULY 1929), p. 239Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Institute and Faculty of ActuariesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41138370 .

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1929.1 Reviews. 239

EEVIEWS.

Elementary Applications of Statistical Method. By H. Banister, B.Sc. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Cantab.).

[Pp. 56 + vii. London and Glasgow : Blackie & Son, Ltd. 1929. Price 3*. 6d. net.]

According to the preface the author's aim is to enable those " who have perforce to deal with statistical data without having any aptitude for statistical analysis, to understand their results more fully." The method adopted is to describe briefly the successive steps to be applied to statistics for curve fitting but to omit the proofs of the operations involved. This omission impairs the usefulness of the book to a member of the Institute whose studies, if he takes up this kind of work, will have to go a little deeper. With a few exceptions the author writes clearly and well and he is quite familiar with his subject. It is consequently to be regretted that his object was not a more ambitious one. The practical examples and sets of questions, with answers, will be a help to many, but the short table of logarithms might reasonably have been omitted.

H. B. S.

Bankers' Balances. A study of the effects of the Federal Reserve System on Banking relationships. By Leonard L. Watkins, Ph.D.

[Pp. 429 + xvi. Chicago. A. ''' Shaw Company. 1929. Price $6.]

The Morris Plan of Industrial Banking. By Peter W. Herzog.

[Pp. 113 + x. Chicago and New York. A. W. Shaw Company, London. A. W. Shaw & Co., Ltd. 19l>8. Price $2.]

Chicago Trust Company prizes are offered as a challenge to thinkers in the financial-legal field. The first of these books was successful in winning the triennial award of $2,500, the first annual prize for 1927 being gained by the latter volume. Both are now available in the Institute Library for the use of Members.

ERRATUM.

Vol. lix, p. 426, line 15. For (h*-3x2) read (9/i2-^).

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