Volume 81 (1955)

Presidential Address. - Bunford, J. F. p.1-14.
The taxation treatment of provisions for retirement. Discussion of Cmd.9063. p.15-50.
The Golden Jubilees of the Norwegian and Swedish Actuarial Societies. p.51-52.
Osculation of high order. - Vaughan, H. p.53-57.
Local Government Superannuation Act, 1953. p.81-83.
The components of mortality. - Barnett, H. A. R. p.105-149.
Valuation of reversions and life interests for the purpose of apportionment of trust funds. - Benz, N. p.150-185.
The variance of the product of two independent variables and its application to an investigation based on sample data. - Barnett, H. A. R. p.190.
Ordinary life office organization using a large-scale electronic computer. - Baker, A. C. p.203-260.
Deferred annuities with participation in profits. - Ogborn, M. E.; Wallas, G. E. p.261-299.
Golden Jubilee of the Association of Swiss Actuaries. p.300-301.

Mortality investigations and studies

The recent trend of mortality in England and Wales. - Hocking, W. S. p.58-63.

Conference, seminar and meeting reports

The World Population Conference, Rome, 1954. p.186-189.

Book reviews

Reviews I. p.84-103.

• Biometrika tables for statisticians, volume 1, by E. S. Pearson and H. O. Hartley (eds)
• The Registrar General's Decennial Supplement, England and Wales, 1951, Occupational Mortality, Part I
• Approximate valuation of life assurance and annuity contracts, by M. T. L. Bizley and A. E. Lacey
• A report by the Government Actuary and the Actuary to the National Debt Commissioners on the mortality experience of government life annuitants 1940- 1950
• The law of life assurance, by David Houseman
• Impairment study, 1951
• The determinants and consequences of population trends. United Nations Population Study, no.17
• National Insurance Act, 1946 - Report by the Government Actuary on the First Quinquennial Review
• National Insurance Bill, 1954. Report by the Government Actuary on the financial provisions of the Bill (Cmd. 9332)
• Studies on medical and population subjects, no 8: measurement of morbidity. A report of the Statistics Sub-committee of the Registrar General's Advisory Committee on Medical Nomenclature and Statistics
• Catalogue de la Bibliothèque Internationale des Assurances de Louvain, by E. van Dievoet
• How to lie with statistics, by Darrell Huff
• Design for decision, by Irvin D. J. Bross

Reviews II. p.197-201.

• Addendum to demography, by Peter R. Cox
• The taxation of gifts and settlements (including pension provisions), by G. S. A. Wheatcroft
• An introduction to stochastic processes with special reference to methods and applications, by M. S. Bartlett)
• Foetal, infant and early childhood mortality (United Nations Population Study, Series A, no.13). Volume 1: The statistics. Volume II: Biological, social and economic factors
• Handbook of population census methods (United Nations Study in Methods, Series F, no.5)

Reviews III. p.318-320.

• Chance and choice by cardpack and chessboard, by Professor Lancelot Hogben
• A history of industrial life assurance, by Dermot Morrah

Other articles

Notes on the Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries. p.64-65.
Notes on the Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries. p.302.
Notes on other actuarial journals. - Seal, H. L.; Hamilton-Jones, J.; Pain, B. P. p.66-69.
Notes on other actuarial journals. - Seal, H. L.; Hamilton-Jones, J.; Pain, B. P. p.194-196.
Notes on other actuarial journals. - Seal, H. L.; Hamilton-Jones, J.; Pain, B. P. p.303-309.
Articles and papers of actuarial interest. - Benjamin, B.; Haycocks, H. W.; Pegler, J. B. H. p.70-73.
Articles and papers of actuarial interest. - Benjamin, B.; Haycocks, H. W.; Pegler, J. B. H. p.310-314.
Official publications. p.74-80.
Official publications. p.191-193.
Official publications. p.315-317.