Recent additions to heritage collections

The libraries still add texts to the historic collections on the origins and practice of actuarial science. A member’s generous donation recently helped buy the original portrait of actuary William Morgan. We have recently acquired William Leybourn’s Panarithmologia: a snapshot of insurance operating in Britain in 1693, the year that Edmund Halley produced his pioneering mortality table applied to value annuities. Life insurance then was limited. Sometimes cover was for payment of ransom if captured in travel!