| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's special exhibition to mark the centenary at Burlington House, London, with descriptive text. Commencing with an introductory essay 'John Graunt, F.R.S.', by Professor David Victor Glass.
The Mace of the Royal Society presented by King Charles II in 1663.
The Charter Book of the Royal Society which contains the signatures of the Royal Patrons and of the Fellows of the Society.
1. A page of the Register of St. Michael, Cornhill, 1546-1657...for the christening of John Graunt on 1 May 1620, photograph courtesy of the Guildhall Library.
2. A page pf the Register of baptisms and burials of St. Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, 1669-1709, showing...the burial of John Graunt on 20 April 1674, photograph courtesy of the Guildhall Library.
3. Journal Book of the Royal Society, meeting of 5 February 1661/2. John Graunt proposed a candidate to the Fellowship; gift by Graunt of fifty copies of his book on the Bills of Mortality.
4. John Graunt's signature in the Journal Book of the Royal Society on his admission on 5 March 1661/2.
5. Natural and political observation made upon the bills of mortality by John Graunt, F.R.S. First, second and fifth editions, lent by the Royal Statistical Society and the Instuitute of Actuaries.
6. Collection of original bills of mortality, lent by London County Council.
7. Journal of Gregory King, lent by London County Council.
8. London's dreadful visitation: or a collection of all the bills of mortality for this dreadful year, 1665 (reprints...), lent by the Institute of Actuaries.
9. History of the Royal Society (1667) by Thomas Sprat.
10. An estimate of the degrees of the mortality of mankind drawn from...the city of Breslau, by Edmond Halley F.R.S.
11. Some further observations on the Breslau bills of mortality, by Edmond Halley F.R.S.
12. Letter from Caspar Neumann, F.R.S., to Halley concerning the Breslau bills.
13. Observations on the expectations of lives by Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S.
14. Letters by, to and about Richard Price F.R.S., in the collections of Yale University, lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
15. Miscellanea analytica de seriebus et quadratus (1730), by Abraham de Moivre, F.R.S.
16. Letter of 1736 from De Moivre commending a person for Fellowship of the Royal Society.
17. Essai sur les probabilitiés de la durée de la vie humaine, by M. Deparcieux, lent by the Institute of Actuaries.
18. Essays on political arithmetic (1742 to 1748), by W. Kersseboom, lent by the Institute of Actuaries.
19. John Rickman's esitmates of the population of England and Wales in the years 1570, 1600, 1630, 1670, 1700 and 1750...preface to the Census of Great Britain 1841 Enumeration abstract, lent by the General Register Office.
20. Letter of 1752 from James Dodson F.R.S. to John Robertson F.R.S., in the form of bills of mortality.
21. A table of decrements by James Dodson F.R.S., lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
22. Observations on the past growth and thre present state of the City of London, by Corbyn Morris F.R.S., lent by the Institute of Actuaries.
23. First lecture on insurances by James Dodson F.R.S., (1756), lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
24. Tables of mortality based upon the Swedish population prepared...in 1766 by Per Wilhelm Wargenstin (reprint 1930), lent by the Institute of Actuaries.
25. Transcript of Dodson's first lecture on insurances (1756) made in 1768.
26. Observations on the proper method of calculating the values of reversions...by Richard Price D.D., F.R.S.
27. An authentic account of the theory and mode of calculation ...for widows in the Danish Dominions...translation of a report by Professor Lous and Buggee...1778, lent by the Institute of Actuaries.
28. Photographic copies of two or three pages from the Census by Dr Heysham, lent by the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle.
29. Copy of a circular by William Wales F.R.S. in 1781, lent by the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle.
30. The mortality of the English tontines, 1693-1783...by John Finlaison, lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
31. Observations on the bills of mortality in Carlisle between the years 1781 and 1787 by Dr Heysham, lent by the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle.
32. Comparison by William Morgan F.R.S., of actual deaths with those that 'should have died'...according to the plan suggested by Richard Price, lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
33. Records of claims paid by the Equitable...by William Morgan, lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
34. Table, showing the disorders of which persons assured by the Equitable Society have died ...1800 to 1821 by William Morgan, lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
35. Sur l'homme et le développment de ses facultés, by L.A.J Quetelet F.R.S. 2 volumes Paris 1835, lent by the Institute of Actuaries.
36. Statistics of families in the upper and professional classes (1875) by Charles Ansell Jr., lent by the Institute of Actuaries.
37. Vital statistics (1885) by William Farr..., lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
38. Model of eighteenth and twentieth century London, lent by the Equitable Life Assurance Society. |