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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 221. 



WESTERN LIFE ASSU- 

 RANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY, 

 8. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON. 

 Founded A.D. 1842. 



Directors. 



T. Grissell.Esq. 



J. Hunt, Esq. 



J. A. I.ethbridge,Esq. 



E.Lucas, Esq. 



J. Lys Seager, Esq. 



J. B. White, Esq. 



J. Carter Wood, Esq. 



H. E. Bicknell.Esq. 

 T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq 



M.P. 

 G. II. Drew, Esq. 

 W. Evans, Esq. 

 W. Freeman, Esq. 

 F. Fuller, Esq. 

 J. H. Goodhart, Esq. 



Trustees. 



W.Wliateley.Esq., Q.C. ; George Drew, Esq.; 



T. Grisscll, Esq. 



Physician. — William Ricli. Basham.M.D. 



Bankers. — Messrs. Cocks. Biddulph, and Co., 



Charing Cross. 



VALUABLE PRIVILEGE. 

 POLICIES effected in this Office do not he- 

 come void through temporary difficulty in pay- 

 ing a Premium, as permission is given upon 

 application to suspend the payment at interest, 

 according to the conditions detailed in the Pro- 

 spectus. 



Specimens of Bates of Premium for Assuring 

 lOOf., with a Share in three-fourths of the 

 Profits: — 



Age £ s. d. \ Age £ *. d. 



17- - - 1 14 4 I 32- - - 2 10 8 

 22 - - - I 18 8 37- - - 2 18 6 

 27- - -245|42- - -382 



ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., 

 Actuary. 

 Now ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, 

 With material additions, INDUSTRIAL IN- 

 VESTMENT and EMIGRATION; being a 

 TREATISK on BENEFIT BUILDING SO- 

 CIETIES, and on the General Principles of 

 Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of 

 Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, 

 Sic. With a Mathematical Appendix on Com- 

 pound Interest and Life Assurance. By AR- 

 THUR SCRATCH1.EY, M. A., Actuary to 

 the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. Parlia- 

 ment Street, London. 



gnliritnrs' fc feral £ii> 

 jtanrar* &Mit% 



52. CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. 



Subscribed Capital, ONE MILLION. 



THIS SOCIETY PRESENTS THE FOL- 

 LOWING ADVANTAGES : 



The Security of a Subscribed Capital of ONE 

 MILLION. 



Exemption of the Assured from all Liability. 



Premiums affording particular advantages to 

 Young Lives. 



Participating and Non-Participating Pre- 

 miums. 



In the former EIGHTY PER CENT, or 

 FOUR-FIFTHS of the Profits are divided 

 amongst the Assured Triennially, either by 

 way of addition to the sum assured, or in 

 diminution of Premium, at their option. 



No deduction is made from the four-fifths 

 of the profits for Interest on Capital, for a 

 Guarantee Fund, or on any other account. 



POLICIES FREE OF STAMP DUTY and 

 INDISPUTABLE, except in case of fraud. 



At the General Meeting, on the 31st May 

 last, A BONUS was declared of nearly Two 

 Per Cent, per annum on the amount assured, 

 or at the rate of from THIRTY to upwards of 

 BIXTY per cent, on the Premiums paid. 



POLICIES share in the Profits, even if ONE 

 PREMIUM < >NLY has been paid. 



Next DIVISION OF PROFITS in 1856. 



The Directors meet on Thursdays at 2 o'clock. 

 Assurances may be effected by applying on any- 

 other day, between the hours of 10 and 4, at the 

 Office of the Society, where prospectuses and 

 all other requisite information can be obtained. 

 CHARLES JOHN GILL, Secretary. 



XYLO- IODIDE OF SILVER, exclusively used at all the Pho- 

 tographic Establishments. — The superiority of this preparation is now universally ac- 

 knowledged. Testimonials from the best Photographers and principal scientific men of the day, 

 warrant the assertion, that hitherto no preparation has been discovered which produces 

 uniformly such perfect pictures, combined with the greatest rapidity of action. In all cases 

 where a quantity is required, the two solutions may be had at Wholesale price in separata 

 Bottles, in which state it may be kept for years, and Exported to any Climate. Full instructions 

 for use. 



Cautiox. — Each Bottle is Stamped with a Red Label bearing my name, RICHARD W. 

 THOMAS, Chemist, 10. Pall Mall, to counterfeit which is felony. 



CYANOGEN SOAP: for removing all kinds of Photographic Stains. 



The Genuine is made only by the Inventor, and is secured with a Red Label bearing this Signature 

 and Address, RICHARD W. THOMAS, CHEMIST, 10. PALL MALL, Manufacturer of Pure 

 Photographic Chemicals : and may be procured of all respectable Chemists, in Pots at Is., 2s., 

 and 3s. 6d. each, through MESSRS. EDWARDS, 67. St. Paul's Churchyard ; and MESSRS. 

 BARCLAY & CO., 95. Farriugdon Street, Wholesale Agents. 



BOUNTY FIRE OFFICE, 



V; 60. REGENT STREET, and 2. ROYAL 

 EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, LONDON.— 

 Established 1806. 



Trustees and Directors. 

 The Right non. Lord Northwick. 

 Major-Gen. Charles Richard Fox. 

 Sir Richard D. King, Bart. 

 Sir Glynne Earle Welby, Bart. 

 The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P. 

 Frederick Squire, Esq. 

 Henry B. Churchill, Esq. 

 The Rev. James Sherman. 

 The Rev. Isaac Spencer. 

 William Henry Stone, Esq. 

 &c. &c. Sec. 

 Managing Director. —John A. Beaumont, Esq. 



The Rates of Premium charged by the 

 County Fire Office are upon the lowest scale 

 consistent with security to the insured. 



When a Policy has existed for a period of 

 seven years, a return of 25 percent., or one- 

 fourlh the amount of Premiums paid during 

 that period, is declared upon such policy. 



The returns paid to the present time amount 

 to nearly 200,000?. 



All losses are settled with promptitude and 

 liberality. 



CHARLES STEVENS, Secretary. 



VIEAVS IN LONDON. 



STEREOSCOPES AND STEREOSCOPIC 

 PICTURES. 



BLAND & LONG, 153. FLEET 

 STREET. OPTICIANS and PHILO- 

 SOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS, in- 

 vite attention to their Stock of STEREO- 

 SCOPES of all Kinds, and in various Materials ; 

 a'so, to their New nnd Extensive Assortment 

 of STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES for the 

 same, in DAGUERREOTYPE, on PAPER, 

 and TRANSPARENT ALBUMEN PIC- 

 TURES on GLASS, including Views of 

 London, Paris, the Rhine, Windsor, &c. These 

 Pictures, for minuteness of Detail and Truth 

 in the Representation of Natural Objects, are 

 unrivalled. 



BLAND & LONG, Opticians, 153. Fleet 

 Street, London. 



*** " Familiar Explanation of the Pheno- 

 mena " sent on Application. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARA- 

 TUS, materials, and PURE CHE- 

 MICAL PREPARATIONS. 



KNIGHT & SONS' Illustrated Catalogue, 

 containing Description and Price of the liest j 

 forms of Cameras andother Apparatus. Voight- 

 lander and Son's Lenses for Portraits and j 

 Views, together with the various Materials, | 

 and pure Chemical Preparations required in ! 

 practising the Photographic Art. Forwarded 

 free on receipt of Six Postage Stamps. 



Instructions given in every branch of the Art. 

 An extensive Collection of Stereoscopic and 

 other Photographic Specimens. 



GEORGE KNIGHT & SONS, Foster Lane, 

 London. 



TMPROVEMENT IN COLLO- 



X DION.— J. B. HOCKIN & CO., Chemists, 

 289. Strand, have, by an improved mode of 

 Iodizing, succeeded in producing a Collodion 

 equal, they may say superior, in sensitiveness 

 and density of Negative, to any other hitherto 

 published ; without diminishing the keeping 

 properties and appreciation of half tint for 

 which their manufacture has been esteemed. 



Apparatus, pure Chemicals, and all the re- 



?uirements for the practice of Photography, 

 nstruction in the Art. 



THE COLLODION AND Po- 

 sitive PAPER PROCESS. By J. B. 

 HOCKIN. Price 1*., per Post, Is. 2d. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. — HORNE 

 & CO.'S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining 

 Instantaneous Views, and Portraits in from 

 three to thirty seconds, according to light. 



Portraits obtained by the above, for delicacy 

 of detail rival the choicest Daguerreotypes, 

 specimens of which may he seen at their Esta- 

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Also every description of Apparatus, Che- 

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PHOTOGRAPHIC CAME- 

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 DOUBLE-BODIED FOLDING CAMERA, 



is superior to every other form of Camera, 

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 adaptation for taking either Views or Por- 

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Every Description of Camera, or Slides, Tri- 

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New Inventions, Models, &c, made to order 

 or from Drawings. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



A COMPLETE SET OF Ap- 

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 Expanding Camera, with warranted Double 

 Achromatic Adjusting Lenses, a Portable 

 Stand, Pressure I'rame, Levelling Stand, and 

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PORTRAIT LENSES of double Achro- 

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LANDSCAPE LENSES, with Rack Ad- 

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A GUIDE to the Practice of this interesting; 

 Art, Is., by post free. Is. 6d. 



French Polished MAHOGANY STEREO- 

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 STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES for the same 

 in Daguerreotype, Calotype, or Albumen, at 

 equally low prices. 



ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPES. 

 Beautifully finished ACHROMATIC MI- 

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Printed by Thomas Ci.a »« Shaw, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of 

 fit. Bride, in the City of London ; and published by Georoe Bell, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Pariah of St. Dunstan in the West, in taa 

 City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid— Saturday, January 21. 1854. 



