Excerpt from Reports to the Board of Directors of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, 1901 Gentlemen: By Resolution of the Board, of the thirty-first of January last, the Mathematician was given leave of absence for a visit to England, and was requested to examine, on behalf of the Company, into the subject of Life Insurance there, the condition and experience of the Companies, and collect such information and materials and purchase such books on life insurance for the Company as he might be able. In pursuance of such permission and request, I sailed from New York on the seventh of April, and returned - after some detention by an accident on the voyage - on the twenty-sixth of July - too late by a few days to be present in that month at the meeting of the Board. By the invitation of the President, I am happy to avail myself of the earliest opportunity now afforded, to say something of my trip, and particularly of the matters mentioned in the resolution. Soon after getting to London, I became acquainted with several leading Actuaries, and began the collection of information and materials for future study of life insurance, as practiced by the numerous Companies of Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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