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parcels-post system. In the same way the article OLD AGE PENSIONS will make you acquainted with another radical measure which has been adopted in Great Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Victoria and notably New Zealand, with fuller description in the article NEW ZEALAND. The importance of the subject to the American insurance man lies in the fact that similar schemes are under consideration or actual operation in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and other states of the United States. In the same way the article on EMPLOYERS LIABILITY and WORKMEN’S INSURANCE will give him a wider grasp of the subject of state insurance, mandatory or elective, for workmen. The principal articles on insurance topics have already been mentioned. It is to be noted, however, that the actuary will find important information in the mathematical articles MENSURATION and PROBABILITY; that the article FRIENDLY SOCIETIES is supplemented by such special articles as FREE MASONRY, B’NAI BRITH, BUILDING SOCIETIES, BURIAL SOCIETIES, ODD FELLOWS, etc. In the _Classified List of Articles_ in the Index Volume the student of insurance will find on page 893 a list of articles in the field of economics and social science, many of which will bear more or less directly on the subject. Among these articles and sub-articles are: Abandonment Accident Actuary Annuity Assets Austria Average Baby-Farming Barratry Boarding-out System Bonus Bounty Casualty Insurance Census Charity Co-insurance Combination Communism Conflict of Insurance Laws Co-operation Emigration Employers’ Liability Eugenics Fire and Fire Extinction Fire Insurance Foundling Hospitals F. P. A. Liabilities Friendly Societies Gaming and Wagering General Guarantee Halley’s Table Housing Illegitimacy Income Tax Industrial Insurance Infanticide Insurance Interest factor Japan Labour Legislation Land Registration Liability Life Insurance Lloyd’s Maritime Insurance Mendicancy Mensuration Mutual Insurance Mortality Rates Negative Values Net Liability Net Premium Non-forfeiture Northampton Table Novation Old Age Pensions Pauperism Pawnbroking Policy Poor Law Population Post Office Premium Probability Production Profit Sharing Rates of Mortality Reserve Salvage Selection Shipbuilding Socialism Social Settlements Subrogation Suicide Sumptuary Laws Surplus Surrender Values Switzerland Tariff Taxation of Insurance Title Guarantee Companies Tontine Trade Unions Tramp Trusts Underwriter Unemployment Usury Wages Warranty Wealth